AVR-Chat

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>That's beside the point. It can and does happen.
>What happens if you have a soldered an AVR part on a board and lock up
>the ISP mode? - bad news.
>I know people who refuse to use SMD or solder DIP AVR parts into any
>board, and I must say I'm one of them. Call me paranoid, but I'm not
>going to design in a non-robust ISP system into one of my designs.

Hmm.. Well, we have a system in production with three AVRs in it, and 
haven't had any problems.