> 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? Read "start with PICs" : http://www.voti.nl/swp/index.html#name buried in the links: Richard Ottosen's Gizmo page has links to the original PIC1650 documents : http://www.idcomm.com/personal/ottosen Wouter van Ooijen -- ------------------------------------------- Van Ooijen Technische Informatica: www.voti.nl consultancy, development, PICmicro products -- 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