On Sep 29, 2005, at 7:36 AM, Wouter van Ooijen wrote: > AVRs have a moderately bad reputation for being phased our > relatively soon (compared to for instance PICs). Yeah, maybe. On the other hand, the phased-out AVRs are generally replaced with pin-compatible, near-software-compatible chips. You have to wonder about companies that still NEED to buy the PIC16C84 that microchip still makes available, for instance. Maybe they deleted all the comments to save space, eh? :-) BillW -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist