On Tuesday, Feb 24, 2004, at 13:32 US/Pacific, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

> But what is realy special about AVR compared to PICs?

Microchip fixed a lot of the AVR's competitive advantages when
they introduced the 18F line.  Before that, AVRs had a big
edge at the high end in terms of program, ram, and eeprom space.
(I think the AVR still has a slight edge, but it's no longer
really obnoxious.)

OTOH, The AVRs have fixed some of their weak points as well (some
chips have really low current sourcing capability, for instance.)

JAL for the AVR would be ok.  Or how about a compiler that takes
PIC code and produces AVR code (more or less.)  That'd be nice
and obnoxious...

Both Atmel and Microchip lose brownie points for their wide
scattering of dis-information during the heavy battling days.

BillW

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