Re: microcontroller programming -- how to begin

I don't think AVR (based on the ancient 8051 which is closer to its
40th birthday than its 30th) is a very good place to start. It works,
but somewhere down the road you'll discover C isn't portable between
platforms which have split memory areas.

The AVR is nothing whatsoever to do with the 8051! It's got a
completely different, modern, architecture.

Hmmm... that was my impression as well, that the AVR is more like a
rethought PIC than a rethought 8051.

One source of confusion is that Atmel made some 8051 derivatives just before
they introduced the AVR. Some AVR programmers even have 8051s in them to do
the communication with the host.


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