>From: "Wouter van Ooijen" <wouter@voti.nl>
>Reply-To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
>To: "'Microcontroller discussion list - Public.'" <piclist@mit.edu>
>Subject: RE: [PIC] MPLAB
>Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 20:53:12 +0200
>
> > It almost seems
> > that other micro manufacturers *intend* to exclude beginners /
> > hobbyists...why is that?
>
>I have no dark-side experiences, but others tell me that Atmel offers
>software for the AVRs that is compareable. And they have an architecture
>that makes a GCC port possible.
>
>Wouter van Ooijen
>

I have seen the Atmel AVR stuff.  Although improving, their "aftermarket
support group" has a way to go to equate to PICs, though.

D

Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.


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