AVR-Chat

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Moses O McKnight" <moses@skytex.net>
To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: PIC's s*ck!!


> I'll have to agree with Leon here.  When I have looked at Atmel chips
> thinking about replacements for the PIC chips we use, the only chips I
> found that had all the features we needed were much larger and more
> expensive than the PIC we were using.
>
> One of my gripes with the Microchip stuff though is the lack of free or
> inexpensive C compilers for the 16-and-higher-bit devices.  An even
> bigger gripe is the lack of Linux support, which is one of the main
> reasons I started using AVR.

The free version of the C30 compiler loses some optimisations after 60 days. 
Highly optimised free libraries are available for most applications, so it 
doesn't matter much to most users.

Leon