Ubergeek63
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'People' aren't calling it CISC, only one person is making such a silly suggestion, the PIC is a RISC chip - and has a smaller instruction set than the AVR.
I suppose it was I who misspoke... what i meant is that it is of the same caliber of an 8 bit CISC. and ancient sluggish chip that might has well be a CISC for the hoops you need to jump through to do something as simple as sticking a constant in the code I think it was.
unless the 18s are better than the old ones having a 16 bit instruction word instead of a 12, then the statement stands. Harvard architecture can only go so far toward salvaging the corners that were cut as a necessity of the times.
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