[time-nuts] I want a good micro-controller

Chuck Harris cfharris at erols.com
Sat Aug 16 02:12:40 UTC 2008


Robert Vassar wrote:
> 
> 
> The PIC... I have no nice words for the PIC.  It's a CPU architecture  
> kept alive by Donald Rumsfeld himself (He was the CEO of G.I. back in  
> the '70's), and surely he must have made a deal with the Devil to  
> make it as successful as it is.  How's that for a religious  
> argument? :-)
> 
> 
> Having said all that... Looking thru my parts box, I have ~20 MCS-51  
> variants, ranging from the original i80C31 that I learned on back in  
> the mid-80's to a couple 89C450's and a AT89C51ED2 in 40 pdip that I  
> wish I had a few more of.  I have a couple Z80's, an 8085, 68000,  
> 68020, none of which are particularly useful anymore.  Then there's  
> that one lone 16F84 PIC and it's programmer, which I think I used once.

Oh good, they we can take your opinion on PIC's as that of an expert.

-Chuck Harris




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