On 16 Jun 2007 at 10:23, Peter P. wrote:

> Even at 500kHz data must move 'into' the PIC every 2usec. This is fairly fast 
> esp. if it needs to be de-serialized (not necessarily 8 bits wide - I do not
> remember the width of sector marks and start sequences on floppies) and then
> written into SRAM.
> 

	Use an Atmel AVR running at 20MHz.
	It can execute almost 40 instructions in 2uS.

	Mark Jordan

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