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Eek! Atmel have added a horrible flash intro page to their website.
Flash intro pages should be banned and the perpetrators forced to write
PIC assembler.


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Tim Mitchell

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Tim Mitchell<tim@sabretechnology.co.uk> wrote:
> Eek! Atmel have added a horrible flash intro page to their website.
> Flash intro pages should be banned and the perpetrators forced to write
> PIC assembler.

Using Quill pens and parchment they've made themselves!

-- 
There is no computer problem which cannot be solved by proper
application of a sufficiently large hammer.

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:29:30PM +0100, Tim Mitchell wrote:
> Eek! Atmel have added a horrible flash intro page to their website.
> Flash intro pages should be banned and the perpetrators forced to
> write PIC assembler.

I think you are being too lenient.

No small part of Google's success has been their simple, clean, fast and
lean website. No eye-candy, only the pure beauty of function.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.

So when I saw this message in preview I only saw atmel added a
horrible flash, my first thought was "what, does it program PICs?"



On 6/8/09, Tim Mitchell <tim@sabretechnology.co.uk> wrote:
> Eek! Atmel have added a horrible flash intro page to their website.
> Flash intro pages should be banned and the perpetrators forced to write
> PIC assembler.
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> Tim Mitchell
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On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 10:02:25AM -0400, Michael Haisley wrote:
> So when I saw this message in preview I only saw atmel added a
> horrible flash, my first thought was "what, does it program PICs?"

When I last used PIC they were only just getting into FLASH.  :-)

And back on topic, AVR FLASH CPUs were much less expensive than
Microchip, which brought me into the AVR camp about 5 years ago.

Microchip kicked Motorola's butt by making their product predictable in
cost and availability via DigiKey and Mouser. Atmel learned that lesson
from Microchip and one-upped them.

Those who were not buying microcontrollers 15 years ago may not know
that to buy a Motorola chip one had to beg for permission and allocation
from Motorola.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
========================================================================
Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.

David Kelly wrote:

> Those who were not buying microcontrollers 15 years ago may not know
> that to buy a Motorola chip one had to beg for permission and allocation
> from Motorola.

... and pray that just as your product was coming out of field test 
they didn't decide to use the part you selected in a cell phone.

Tim

At 01:56 AM 9/06/2009, you wrote:
>Microchip kicked Motorola's butt

Not to mention Motorola client's (now ex-clients)
playing a bit of football too.


Regards

John Samperi

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