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On 9/11/24 4:40 AM, David Brown wrote:
> The other reason, of course, was the name - "PIC" is associated with 
> brain-dead microcontrollers with terrible C tools and which many people 
> program in assembly.  They are also renowned for being very solid, 
> coming in relatively amateur-friendly packages, and for never going out 
> of production.

After having written code for a PIC I agree with "brain-dead". The small 
sized memory pages were bad enough but the total lack of an add with 
carry instruction drove me mad.

So I swore them off and the introduction of a MIPS based system did 
nothing to change that.

-- 
http://davesrocketworks.com
David Schultz