Doug R. Boulware <dougrb@SQUEAKY.FREE.ORG> wrote:

>You confirmed my suspicion that the simulator is wrong.  Not that its the
>first bug I've come across.  In case it's not general knowledge, the
>Parallax simulator also does not handle the port B change interrupt
>correctly.  The v2.42 I have will continually interrupt as long as any of
>the respective port B pins are high.
> ....
>I have yet to get the Microchip simulator. Is it better than Parallax's ?

    Doug:

    Depends on what you mean by "better".  If you mean "does it properly
    emulate the PICs' operation", "does it support EVERY SINGLE PIC that
    Microchip makes", "does Microchip promptly fix whatever minor bugs DO
    creep in", or "does it allow source-level debugging of code written for
    Microchip's MPASM assembler", or even "was it written by a chick", the
    answer is YES.

    If you mean, "does it have a user-friendly interface", the answer is NO,
    NOT YET.  By April, 1996, though, Microchip's simulator will be fully
    integrated into MPLAB, the new interface for Microchip's Windows-based
    PIC-MASTER emulator.

    -Andy

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