Harold,

(Sorry for misspelling your name a few days ago - I was thinking of the Bluetooth chap :-)

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:35:32 -0700 (PDT), Harold Hallikainen wrote:

>...<
> I've had LOTS of PICs go obsolete on me. Fortunately, Microchip provides
> an upgrade path where I can drop in the new chip with no hardware or
> software changes. It's interesting that as Microchip adds featurs (maybe
> changing a timer from 8 bit to 16 bit), the default mode is the old one so
> you don't have to make any software changes. 

It's called "Backwards compatibility", and it was all the rage until Microsoft came along...  luckily 
companies without a monopoly see it as a Good Thing!  :-)

Cheers,

Howard

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