Lpc2000

> I don't understand this, what are you telling us that Atmel opens
> their software specs? try to get from them the debug-write specs then!
> I don't belive if somebody picked chip X or Y the reason is for the
> open software programming specs.

It's easy: open software programming specs give chance for cheap and easy to 
buy programmers (like STK200 and similar).
For beginners "start" price is real argument. In my opinion AVR are No. 1 in 
Poland _only_ because are easy to program and cheap.
Piotr