> I remember just around a month or two ago the 16F88 being 
> talked about as being the hobbyist chip of choice, along with 
> the 16F877 as you mentioned.

As far as web-presence is concerned the F88 will loose badly because it
is a relatively new chip. But it is cretainly the most capable 18-pin
chip.

But IMHO the main reason for choosing 12/14-bit core chip is that you
want be able to eventually make your project cheap. Which chip you start
with is less important, so why not choos the biggest one, which is the
16F877A.

If you don't want to make your project small/cheap (in the end) the
18F's look much better.

Wouter van Ooijen

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