But amidst all the things a positive note, a thing they probably should
not change: their sampling program is excellent, much appreciated by
hobbyists. In time that alone might blow AVR and the 8051's out of the
hobbyist field!

I have a webshop selling PICs (and a lot of related things). One might
think this free samples program would hurt me, but I think that is not
the case. Free samples attract new hobbyists to PICs (who might
otherwise have bought from me, but maybe would not have considered PICs
are all), but for larger numbers (10 or so) they will still have to go
to some shop. And they need stuf beside the PICs, like crystals,
resonators, LCDs, max232, etc, which I sell :)

Wouter van Ooijen

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