Boys, I am worried you are forgetting about the engine that is clear in PC
industry. Every product must be developed as quickly as possible. Being the
second is like to be last one... Doesn't your program work in your computer?
You should buy the more powerful one... It will happen with micros. I am old
enough to be allowed to predict the development... We don't care about
sources, we need a result. When Microchip will not have a support how to
speed up our products we will try anything else.
I can't help but the best processor (almost risk) was 6502. It's still
produced by Mitsubishi and somewhere in the Arizona. Instructions were such
powerful you don't need any HLL.
Igor


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[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of William Chops Westfield
Sent: 19. ledna 2003 23:51
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [PIC]:PIC custom component module for
ExpressPCB/ExpressSch?


    > total cost = engineering cost + unit cost * number of units.

    Yes Wouter, but this doesn't apply to most hobbyists who do it because
    its fun and they want to learn something.  The journey can be as much
    the reward as the destination.

It still applies, it's just that "engineering cost" becomes much harder to
measure.  Some "engineering costs" (those part of the "learning something")
are considered zero, while other "unpleasant" tasks have so much "cost"
that they are rejected out-of-hand.  (lots of "hobbyists" have given up on
the ideas of making their own device programmers and UV erasers in favor of
relatively expensive commercial offerings, for instance...)

BillW

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