> No, > I believe he is saying that they are the same TYPE of memory, but > the data section is optimised for more read / write cycles. Hence > the same programming spec, but different endurance. There is no > real need for 1M programming cycles on program memory, but 10k > would be a bit limiting on data memory. > > Martin err, ummm, i believe some of the dead bugs in my dead bug box are there because i (re)programmed them to death. after all, at 3 minutes for a try-modify-burn cycle, thats only (!) 500 hours per pic. the IDE lets me cut half a minute off that, so thats less than 500 hours on a f877. alice -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu