Time for new uP

[Byron G. Jacquot]

>Well boys and girls, I believe its time to face the music and let a new uP into
>my circle. I have choosen Atmel AVRs for three very good reasons:
>
>1.  Folks on the list gave Atmel the "thumbs up"
>2.  DigiKey has the STK200 starter kit for $49
>3.  The voices in my head told me to do it.
>
>My old workhorse, the Motorola 68HC11, will still be around of course.
We're old
>friends, if you know what I mean.

I made the same transition about a year ago, and haven't looked back.  At
first, because the "getting started" kinda of details seemed easier on the
AVR than they did on the HC11, it felt a little less serious than the HC11 had.

But after playing with all of those working registers, and the somewhat more
orthogonal instruction set, it didn't take long to realize that it wasn't
exactly a toy, either.

You'll find that the development tools are somewhat different (I've not yet
found an AVR equivalent to Buffalo-Bug), but still fairly staright ahead.

Byron

(off to learn something more about the ST7 family...)