AVR-Chat

MoreOrLess wrote:
> Interesting thread but back to the topic of AVR Magazine. I have
> subscribed to Servo since the premiere issue. While an AVR article
> shows up now and then they are few and far between. Most are for the
> PIC family. If Servo don't straighten out there act and start
> supporting AVR more I will stop supporting Servo via a subscription.
> I realize the need to support the masses but surely there could be
> some support for AVR, if only via an on-line AVR addition. Seems to
> me that Nuts and Volts or Servo could publish an on-line version that
> supports AVR and another that supports PIC. You could subscribe to
> either or both at a greatly reduced price because several articles in
> one will most likely appear in the other.

Once upon a time I was a part of Steve Ciarcia's BYTE Research Staff and 
did some work for him in the early Circuit Cellar days as well. You 
might check with Servo and ask why they seem to be PIC centric (If you 
haven't already.) A lot of times a magazine may seem focused on a 
particular micro when in fact the reason is that micro is the one the 
people use who submit articles. In the early days Ciarcia's columns 
featured the Intel 8051 nearly 100% of the time. It was because that's 
what he happened to use in his own work, not because there was any bias 
against Moto or National.

Tim