What Databooks???
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    I called uChip early last week and asked for databooks covering the
pic line.  To my absolute amazement, UPS showed up at my door the very
next day with the 94/95 Embedded Control Handbook!  While the Embedded
Control Handbook is great, I was a little disappointed to find that it's
just a collection of app notes.  I was more interested in nitty gritty
programming info on the individual processors, such as instruction set,
architecture, and device programming.  I'd like to build a 16C84
programmer for the Mac and write my own assembler/downloader.  I have an
old uChip databook called, simply, "Microchip Databook 1992" which
covers serial eeproms, pic family overviews, and logic products.  It
would be nice to have detailed info on uChip's serial eeproms and the
complete pic line.  What databooks should I ask for?


Mac Development Plans
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    I'm glad to see the recent Mac Development thread; I don't feel
alone anymore!  In any case, I plan to bootstrap myself with a little
16C84 serial programmer and then build a universal pic programmer using
the '84.  I'm also going to write an assembler and a little language or
two to go along with the programmer.  I'll post my progress from time to
time if people are interested.


Chris Kristof
Senior ECE Major
Carnegie Mellon University