I've been playing with a 16f84a for the past few days and have enjoyed 
every minute with it.  However, I also purchased an AVR90xxx at the same 
time and have yet to begin learning about it.

What is the general feeling about Atmel's MCUs (price, capability, ease 
of use/learning, speed of development, availability of tools)? 
Particularly the AVR/tiny lines as they seem the most comparable.

Looking through the archives, it seems that opinions of Ubicom's SX 
series are pretty high.  I do like the fact that a good working 
knowledge of the PICs leads to a knowledge of the SX MCUs.  Alas, they 
seem to be going away.

 From http://www.ubicom.com/processors/sx/sx_family.html :

"This product family is going through an end-of-life period that ends 
November 30, 2005. Please see the Ubicom Notice of SX Family 
Obsolescence for details.

For information on continued support, please visit the Parallax Web site 
at: http://www.parallax.com/sx/sx_update.asp"

In short, if you were to start over, would you still choose PICs as your 
development platform of choice?

Looking forward to your replies  :)

- Nate
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