Yeah, it's not that bad, but it's just a poor arch. design.  I would
really like to see Microchip release a new series that doesn't require
banks.  Does the 18 series do that?  I haven't looked yet.


Shawn Wilton
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Herbert Graf wrote:
>>It's the addition of a single letter.  That's nothing compared to having
>>to swap between banks.
>
>
>         Hehe, it truly is amazing how terrified people are of bank switching in
> PICs. It's such a small thing, yet people avoid PICs altogether because of
> it. I've seen quite a few pieces of code that went nuts on staying in bank0,
> resulting in their code being far to "weird" looking.
>
>         Bank switching is easy, I have a few macros that handle it for me, and most
> of the PIC stuff involving bank switching (except for tristating port pins)
> is written once and never looked at again.
>
>         Do I LIKE bank switching? Not particularly. But I am used to it and it
> doesn't bother me, plus it results in a less expensive product, so I see it
> as a very minor annoyance.
>
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