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Re: My hat is off to Microchip and their CEO!

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From: Les Cargill
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:10
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Mark Harriss wrote:
> DJ Delorie wrote:
>> "David L. Jones" <altzone@gmail.com> writes:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YUvlrVlNao
>>
>> Sigh, I've been in that type of meeting before.  Not as Mr Head, of
>> course.
> 
> 
> What's the PIC architecture like these days?, I heard it was always
> pretty messy in terms of memory and a real pain to program in assembly.
> 

You order ones with enough memory internally. The ones I've used were
USB connected and the easiest programming I've ever done. The
external pins are all either built in or macros in a .h file. I
honestly never checked

>   Still it can't be much worse than some of the MAXQ series.


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Les Cargill
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From: Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: My hat is off to Microchip and their CEO!
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