TWENTY CENTS????!?!??!!!?!?!!!! Holy Shamolie! -- Lawrence Lile William Chops Westfield Sent by: pic microcontroller discussion list 02/11/2003 07:50 PM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: Subject: Re: [EE] 4-bit microcontrollers [was "where to go after PICs"] >>> I would suggest widening your horizon to very cheap chips, which are >>> probably difficult to use and obscurely documented, . >> >> and only available in mask-rom, with expensive and poorly documented >> devtools... > > ...that don't work all that nicely.. Heh. There's money in making things work when everyone else finds them "obscure, poorly documented, and not nice..." Speaking of which, I seem to have had one of those "buy" impulses that resulted in my acquiring a significant number of OTP 4-bit microcontrollers (under the "4 bit microcontrollers migh be interesting to look at, especially at about $0.20 each...) These are toshiba TLCS-47 series devices. Does anyone know anything about them? I'm finding the freeware or cheap development tools non-existant as well as obscure. (OTOH, there's interesting arcitectural fossils - "not borrow" flags and backward subtract instructions, for instance...) Thanks Bill W -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics