Linux and PIC development

[Henry Spencer]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Peter Hiscocks wrote:
> Not to start a religious war, but there are other microprocessors with the
> same functionality as the PIC but with much nicer architectures. The PIC
> requires bank switching of registers and page switching of memory, which can
> get ugly...

Correction:  the PIC requires those things *IF* your program and data go
beyond certain sizes.  Where the PICs really shine is for problems which
don't hit those size thresholds.  Within those limits, they're perfectly
reasonable machines, with simple architectures, relatively high speed, and
gobs of choices for on-chip peripherals etc.  (Above those limits, yes,
they're awkward and unclean.)

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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