Microchip has produced thousands of PICSTARTS in the previous months.  It
takes a while for these units with MPALC to get cleared in the
distribution pipeline.  Some are opened, than re-shrinked with an
additional disk with MPASM added.  There are new production units with
MPASM only being shipped.  For the next couple of months, it may be luck
of the draw on what you may receive.  MPASM is available for free
download  on the Microchip BBS available via your local Compuserve access
number.

MPALC is still being supported, but users will be
encouraged to migrate to MPASM.  No new processors will be ported to it.
So dead is a bit premature as a discription, but MPALC is lookint a bit
pale...

Hope this clears this issuea a bit,

Regards to all,

Mike Jedrzejewski
Northwest Regional Applications Manager
Microchip Technology, San Jose, CA
mikejed@netcom.com

On Wed, 21 Sep 1994, Pic User wrote:

> If MPALC is dead, why are Microchip distributing it with PICSTART??
> I bought my set last week, and it has MPSTART, MPALC, MPSIM and a sample
> set of files....
>
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