AVR-Chat

To be fair, this didn't happen recently but a few years ago.  It was one
of their lower pin count ones, 20 pins or so.  I forget which one, but one
I was using got obsoleted and the rep said to use a part that was not pin
compatable.  The details are vague to me now but they made an impression
then.  THose first impressions, especially negative ones can be hard to
shake.

As I said, I love the AVR chip, but my experiences (others may bave
different ones) with support have been spotty here in the US.  THAT said,
unlike the PIC, I can work on my chosen platform, the Macintosh which is a
big plus to me.  The OS folks working with AVRDude for instance are very
responsive.  Now if there was just a nice IDE to use with the GCC toolset
I'd ditch my PIC investment entirely.

DLC

> At 02:14 PM 3/07/2007, you wrote:
>>they replace parts (with parts that aren't pin
>>compatable)
>
> Can you please give an example of the above? As far as I can
> tell they have made pin AND pretty much code compatible upgrades
> for all of their chips, at least since 1999.
>
> Regards
>
> John Samperi
>
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