In alt.engineering.electrical Anthony Fremont wrote: | jasen wrote: |> On 2007-03-16, Anthony Fremont wrote: |>> TT_Man wrote: |>>>> As you said, PIC is king and it is for a reason, they work. |>>>>
|>>> Only if you can get to grips with the appalling op code set..... OK |>>> if you can program in C , I suppose.I can't/won't |>>
|>> I only do assembler on the PIC too. What's wrong with the op-code |>> set? It's RISC, |>
|> no it's not, it has too few registers to qualify. | | By whose definition? It stands for Reduced Instruction Set. 35 | instructions is pretty reduced IMO.
I guess some people thought RISC meant Registers In Surplus Capacity.
|>> it has 35 instructions, it's not supposed to be luxurious. It's |>> supposed to be functional and fast....it succeeds. |>
|> It always seemed kind of awkward and slow slow to me. | | Compared to what? 10MIPs on a few mA is pretty good in my book.
I like that book.