[sdiy] Re: Bottom Ten ICs

[Richard Wentk]

At 11:47 07/10/2004 +0100, Paul Maddox wrote:
>Richard,
>
> > AVR anything. We had the elegant and sleek 68000 back in the mid 80s, so
> > why hype a mediocre 8-bit sort of an architecture today?
>
>ooo, thats a bit harsh..
>AVRs are small, cheap and fairly powerfull.

Dunno. I always think of them as washing machine controllers. I like to 
have spare MIPS to play with, and if you're doing one offs and not 10,000+ 
industrial designs than something with more grunt seems like a better idea.

>Yeah the 68k was nice, but times have moved on.
>Get one of the newer Coldfires (68K architecture), bucket loads more
>features and price to go with it.

Like these, for instance. Thanks for the info. Do you know the prices of 
the newer high end ones?

You never know when your MIDI interface is going to need ethernet. :-)

Richard