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And when Atmel obsoletes a product they replace it with one that will 
fit in the same hole but has more bells and whistles for less money, 
from my experience.

REB

Dave VanHorn wrote:

> 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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