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

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From: Nico Coesel
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:27

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"David L. Jones" <altzone@gmail.com> wrote:

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>Also when looking for a long term investment in micros you may have to 
>consider the companies viability.

Not really. Most of the cost for designing a product goes into the
firmware. If you use PIC and want to switch to another platform you'll
quickly learn that porting C code from or to PIC is almost impossible
for any real piece of firmware*. If you start out with say Renesas H8,
TI's MSP430 or any ARM flavor you'll find exchanging C code between
those is very easy.

* I know the pheripherals are different. Hardware drivers are least of
the problem though.

-- 
Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply
indicates you are not using the right tools...
                     "If it doesn't fit, use a bigger hammer!"
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From: nico@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel)
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Subject: Re: My hat is off to Microchip and their CEO!
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:27:48 GMT
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