> Back in days of yore there were people with names like Nixon, Datallo, My=
ke creating elegant routines to perform difficult tasks with 8-bit PIC's in=
 assembler.

Those where the days my friend ...

> I wonder, am I the only person left using a PicKit2, with MPLAB IDE 8.xx,=
 assembler programming 12F and 16F chips?   My chips only have 2 or 3 numbe=
rs following the "F"?

I moved on from PICs to Cortexes. I might have gone to PIC32 instead if=20
Microchip had provided a decent free C++ compiler...

> Those were the characteristics that encouraged beginners to move to PIC's=
 after playing with the Parallax Basic Stamp. With linked files and project=
s, those days are gone. Systems like the Arduino mean programmers are slow =
to grasp processors at the machine level.
I use Arduino's (but mostly the Due, not the Uno) both privatly and for=20
my classes (C++ and assembler). But with my home-grown development=20
environment instead of the Arduino IDE.

> By the way, I used this question as an excuse to post with a topic identi=
fier [PIC].  I haven't seen many of those lately on the [PIC] list.
>
I fear the PICs are a dead end now. Lots of existing applications, so=20
the sales will go on for quite a while, but the new exiting things are=20
happening elsewhere (Cortexes, ESP8266).

And the interesting questions & answers are now on Stack Exchange -=20
Electrical Engineering. Today I even saw an attempt there by Russel to=20
soften a comment from Olin. That brings back memories of the Piclist's=20
glorious past!

Wouter van Ooijen
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