rhinoceroshead wrote:
Imajeff,
Why do you insist that people call it 9S12 and claim there is no such thing as HCS12?
Even Freescale uses the general term 'HCS12'. Click on 'Products' and look under the 16-bit Microcontroller category.
Yes, I'm glad you asked, because obviously even Freescale does not care. Sure, Before I insisted, I knew that insisting would change nothing. And sure, I've already explained it, but maybe not here(?) The problem is still getting worse with all the twisted runoffs. And beleeeeve me when I say Freescale
is adding to the problem.
It all starts with a simple computer program. When a computer is comparing strings, could you tell it to search for "HCS12" and have it find the "MC9S12XDP512"? Not hardly. But then again, why should I search for "HCS12" if there is NOT ONE SINGLE PART NUMBER with that sequence of characters in it??
Scenario:
When I google for HCS12 stuff, I only get a small fraction of hits. I start getting creative and find many different ways people name it on their websites. Now I'd have to go to colledge and study an advanced querry language in order to combine all the possibilities just to get that one complete list that I wanted. I would also have to guess all of the ways people are spelling it. No I was not complaining only about trying to make "HCS12" an alias MCU name. It just boggles my mind that there are more aliases, or mis-namings (for example classifying it under 8051).
I can't just go through one possible search at a time because websites are getting "smart" and using all of the possible ways that
they know to say 9S12. So I would keep finding the same websites (but still not all of them) each time I searched for a new way to spell it.