At 03:11 AM 11/24/2004, Ake Hedman wrote:

>IMHO the learning curve to move between PIC and AVR is just a tiny little 
>hill. At least if you code in some high level language like C. Its a 
>litter higher (the hill...) if you code in asm but no bigger problem. The 
>winavr development suite is free and very good. and all tools are also 
>available on Linux.
>
>I work on both all the time and select from both families before starting 
>a new project. A younger guy then me with a brain further away from death 
>would probably equally well handle MSP and Freescale at the same time. 
>This is however to much to me....

IMHO, it's more of a dip than a hill, in that the PIC has more special 
things you have to remember.   Some have pinged the AVR on having a larger 
instruction set, but I don't see that as a disadvantage.  

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