> A point no one has brought up yet:
> I can't stand the AVR datasheets.  I find them almost unreadable.

I was afraid I was the only one. For instance, I know there are some
subtle but essential differences between the very primitive AVRs (1200)
and the mpre sophisticated ones, but I had a very hard time finding out
from the datasheet(s) waht the exact differences are.

OTOH I hate the fact that to understand the differences between two PICs
I have (in most cases - sometimes there is an upgrade document) to read
both 100s-of-pages datasheets and do a line-by-line comparison. There is
so much in common, the midrange-reference-manual approach could have
been used to reduce the individual datasheet to let's say 50 pages for
an 16F877(A).

Wouter van Ooijen

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