On 2009-09-30, Rhodri James <rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:44:48 +0100, Grant Edwards ><inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote: > >> $10 is pretty expensive for a lot of applications. I bet that >> processor also uses a lot of power and takes up a lot of board >> space. If you've only got $2-$3 in the money budget, 200uA at >> 1.8V in the power budget, and 6mm X 6mm of board-space, your >> choices are limited. >> >> Besides If you can get by with 256 or 512 bytes of RAM, why pay >> 4X the price for a 1K part? >> >> Besides which, the 8032 instruction set and development tools >> are icky compared to something like an MSP430 or an AVR. ;) >> >> [The 8032 is still head and shoulders above the 8-bit PIC >> family.] > > I was going to say, you want 256 bytes of RAM, you profligate > so-and-so? Here, have 32 bytes of data space and stop your > whining :-)
What? You had 1's? All we had were 0's. And we _liked_ it. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list