Richard Friesen prophesized:
> I haven't heard from anyone who has used the PICSTART.  Can someone
> please give be a brief comparison of the PICSTART and the Parallax
> programmers?

Well, (lucky for me), I didn't have to buy two programmers to find one
that did what I needed.  So, I can't compare the two for you.  I have
been happy with Parallax' product.

The one HUGE selling point, in my book, are the Parallax mnemonics
which are very "8051-like".  Actually they're even better than 8051
mnemonics because there are things like "CJE" to complement "CJNE"
(unlike the 8051).  I have yet to learn the cryptic MicroChip
mneumonics which is kind of bad for me when I want to read sample code
from an app note or something.  Made code development a lot quicker,
though.

You should be able to get about the same effect with any decent macro
assembler and your own time.  Maybe the PICSTART package has a macro
assembler (?).


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