Re: TI-H: AVRs, 10000 Hits!, and my PowerBokk is 102°F

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Subject: Re: TI-H: AVRs, 10000 Hits!, and my PowerBokk is 102°F
From: Bryan Rittmeyer <bryanr@flash.net>
Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 22:59:35 -0400
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Actually Atmel had some silicon purity issues with the AT90S8515
and that is why they don't go above 8 MHz.

However, for the price and package size, the higher end AVRs
aren't all that bad compared to some of the 68HC chips. Now
those things are pieces of crap...

Bryan

Grant Stockly wrote:
> 
> Any high end AVR is a piece of junk...  Unless its the 1200, the PICs can
> be faster...  try the 68HC12/11/5/9/16 or any of those chips...  If you
> need a highpower fully featured, low cost chip, try the NEC V25/20 or in
> that range...  If you want to use intel, you can use te 188 or 186...
> 
> Basically, only the real small AVRs are actually what the docs say they
> are...  The new AVRs are turning out to be a max of 8 and 4 MHz where the
> old ones are 16...  Thats because the bigger and better the chip, the
> slower it is at a low price...
> 
> >Oh, and is there a BASIC compiler for the AVR??? I'm to lazy, err, imean busy
> >to learn ASM for any thing, calc or AVR! (:

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