On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:21:09 -0700, you wrote:

>On Jun 24, 2004, at 7:09 AM, Spehro Pefhany wrote:
>
>> Microchip produced extremely cheap usable development hardware and
>> free software (at the time assemblers could cost hundreds of =
dollars).'
>
>Don't forget parallax.  They were selling PICs in 1s to hobbyists back
>when the only other microcontrollers you could get (as a hobbyist) were
>$30 8051s.  It probably didn't hurt that their "basic stamp" was based
>on a PIC as well.  It seemed to me like a lot of people grew from the
>stamp into PICs in general...
>
>Nowdays...  Microchip and Atmel are still pretty much duking it out for
>design wins in the 'simple and robust microcontroller' arena.  Most of
>the competitors don't do anywhere NEAR the ~20mA output drive of the
>AVRs and PICs.  Which can be a PITA...

20mA from a an AVR, you're kidding, right?=20
PICs have WAY better output swing under load.=20

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