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   From: fb@frank-buss.de   
      
   Arlet Ottens wrote:   
      
   > Or the PIC12F629   
   >   
   > http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/41190E.pdf   
   >   
   > Only $1.75 a piece at Digi-Key, and has 1,000,000 EEPROM erase/program   
   > cycles.   
      
   Looks nice.   
      
   Looking at the datasheet, there is a patent cited:   
      
   http://www.google.com/patents?id=soIZAAAAEBAJ&dq=5,847,450   
      
   They are kidding, right? They can't patent the "invention" that a   
   microcontroller with n bits data bus has n pins, can they?   
      
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