On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Christopher Gill wrote:

> I am about to do a presentation on my university project which has
> been using a PIC. An obvious question I expect to be asked is what is
> the meaning of PIC? I think I have read somewhere that it is
> Programable Interupt Controller but I also think that I read it called
> something else. Is PIC an acronim or does it just look like one?

Originally Programmable Intelligent Computer way back when GI started
making them.

From http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIC:

"Microchip Technology does not use PIC as an acronym (in fact they call
their chips PICmicro's). It could be regarded as an acronym for
Programmable Intelligent Computer, the General Instrument name for the
PIC1650."

Here's an interesting PDF:
http://www.rhoent.com/pic16xx.pdf

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