Jo, there is an easy answer:
FOR PROFIT.  Who the hell will change all technology because some poors
get crazy changing banks ?
nobody from US, be sure!

all the best, Vasile

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Jinx wrote:

> > If those original chips hadn't been so popular, Microchip could've
> > just oboleted them and started over with a new architecture every
> > few years as they needed to make larger chips; that's what many
> > other microcontroller vendors do
>
> Thanks for the explanation Andrew. I've seen MC EPROMs from
> that era but not micros
>
> So in a way MC (or us, as we feel sometimes) were a participating
> "victim" of their own success ? I'm sure that Atmel had the page
> issue of PICs in mind when they designed the AVR as a competitor.
> As they based theirs on a non-paging architecture anyway they didn't
> really have to do a lot. Although paging does rear its head from time
> to time, it's liveable, it's a fact. Perhaps one day MC will design a
> "son of PIC"  that has contiguous access like other micros
>
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