On Jun 30, 12:05am, jory bell wrote:
|Subject: Re: PIC programmer for Mac?
| uChip's comments about not supporting the Mac (recounted below at a
| seminar) seem quite lame given their stubborn use of a totally non-stadard
| serial protocol for their tools. Were it not for this totally unnecessary
| anti-standard, SoftPC (or the DOS-compatability card for the newer Macs)
| would at least get us into the development game without buying Actual
| Wintel hardware.

You're right. This may also interest you: at the same seminar, I prodded
the factory guy about the continuing reports that code protection can be
defeated by various conbinations of pulsing the progr. pin, applying
strange voltages and sequencing them in particular ways. He maintains
that they watch the same traffic, and have never been able to duplicate
any of the claimed results.

Reg


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