What about the motorola microcontroller?

"WaldemarIII" <bleek004@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > The trouble with most Motorola micros is that they have so much
historical
> > garbage with them I can't really recommend them for a newbie.
> >
>
> I beg to differ. The ease with which you get your application
> together depends largely on the development environment.
> I'm quite charmed by Metrowerks Codewarrior for HC08
> in combination with Processor Expert. The latter shields off
> most of the intricacies that come with initializing the various
> peripherals. I'm aware that there's a performance penalty to
> pay, but that outweighs the speed with which you get the app
> up and running. At a later stage you can always delve into the
> nitty-gritty if you need (want).
> As to the 'historical garbage' , that's a purely subjective
> judgement. The application determines the MCU. It all comes
> down to 'good tools make good products'.
>
> Have fun
>
> Waldemar
>
>

We are talking many thousands of pounds for the system you describe.  Whilst
long term economic sense I'm not sure if this sort of expenditure is likely
for a newbie.  For a starter on a limited budget the Rabbit may be perfectly
adequate.

The Motorola range of micro has a lot of clutter in its architecture
normally unseen in other devices.  Yes a good development environment will
mask all of this as you say but I don't feel it's an ideal situation.