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At 03:49 AM 10/2/2004, MuRaT KaRaDeNiZ wrote:


>AT90S2313 micro had been a notorious microcontroller
>in terms of its EEPROM data content reliability. Try
>new ATtiny2313 micros, they have a real built-in BOD
>circuitry. Some of the EEPROM data loss issues come
>from non-existence of a BOD circuit.

It was always up to YOU to determine wether you had enough power to complete the write, before starting one. 
You have to assure that a reset will not occur during the write, including a WDT reset.

Unfortunately, a lot of folks wrote weak code, and ran it on weak hardware, and it mostly worked..