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Shoot! I've just been looking at the AVRs and their accompanying tools. 
I wish I'd looked at them sooner--it looks like my next project will see 
me ditching my PIC.

Would anyone be willing to offer me a quick pro/con of the AVR vs. PIC18F?

Thanks,
Ian

D. Jay Newman wrote:
>>Is anyone aware of a reason for the lack of OSS for the PIC (in 
>>particular PIC18)? Is there another processor that's taken most of the 
>>interest of the OSS community, and has better OSS tools?
> 
> 
> The AVR seems to be well supported by the OSS community.
> 
> Basically if the people who use the chips want to write support for it,
> the support will be there.

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