In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Paddock writes: >The PIC gained a foothold due to Motorola, not Hobbyists. >At the time most embedded designs were moving to the 6805 family >for the low end (small pin count) chips.
Any single simple sounding explanation for a complex phenomena is more likely to be wrong than correct :-) There are many reasons why PIC's are popular, from being virtually indestructible to rampaging piracy of cable/sat-TV cards over sheer idiocy on the parts of various other chip producers. And don't forget quality of documentation here, the easier the documentation is to understand the more mindshare a chip gets. My postboy for this theory is the abysmall Z-8000 which everybody talked up a storm. I like the fact that there are many and varied microcontrollers available, and if anybody want to join me on one of my next projects, you will be more than welcome: An ADuC7020 (ARM, 1msps ADC) based LORAN-C frequency (and possibly phase) receiver. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
