Language-specific CPUs was Re: uIEC/SD == AWESOME!

[Dave McGuire]

On Jan 2, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> [i8051]
>> Far nicer than other Intel designs.
> This is easy, due to the awkward braindamage of typical intel designs.
> Did we already talk about iAPX432? ;-)
>
> Even when coding assembler, an AVR is much nicer to code for then an
> i8051. I did only a single project in i8051 assembler. It was
> disgusting. Then I saw the light of AVR assembler and never looked
> back. That was about 10 years ago. Now we have avr-gcc and so I don't
> care much about the actual uC architecture. Today the availability  
> of a
> good, free C compiler toolchain + cheap and simple ISP programmer is
> more important to me.
> avr-gcc + avr-gdb + avr-libc + avrdude = fun. Lots of it. :-)

   Many have said good things about AVR...including a few people  
whose opinions I value, now including you.  I plan to check it out  
someday.  For now, my "tiny" projects use PIC, my "small/medium"  
projects use various 8051 implementations, and my "big" projects use  
ARM.  I will add AVR to that list when I have some time to check it out.

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL