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Out of curiosity, what does "something Nordic" refer to?
by hjalle 11y ago
Out of curiosity, what does "something Nordic" refer to?
- smcl 11y agoTotal guess - maybe Nordic Semiconductor were also kicking the tyres deciding if they wanted to buy Atmel?
- the-dude 11y agoIirc, Atmel is from Norway
- ballooney 11y agoI interpreted it as: Elegant, clean design (certainly compared to the old 8-bit PICs). Good taste. FOSS-friendly. Microchip might be a Texan oilman in this comparison. Just keep pumping them PICs out don't listen to those commies with their 'GCC' and their 'lee-nux' - sounds foreign and suspicious. This is obviously a tongue-in-cheek characterisation but I think that's what the OP was getting at.
- woadwarrior01 11y agoThe AVR architecture was designed in Norway[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmel_AVR#Brief_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmel_AVR#Brief_history