[time-nuts] favorite microcontroller module?

[Mike S]

At 06:36 PM 2/19/2008, Robert Vassar wrote...
>I'll second this.  I'm kind of fond of the MCS-51 family for 8 bit
>applications.

>I regard PIC chips as something to be avoided.

I suppose it's a religious issue, but I have always preferred 
Motorola-style (MOS, Microchip), instruction sets (more orthogonal) and 
mnemonics to Intel-style ones (Atmel). It makes more sense (at least in 
English) to say "put the bread on the table," than "put on the table 
the bread."

And don't get me started about linear addressing and memory I/O 
(Motorola) vs. butt-ugly segmented addressing (Intel).