> > > Hopefully, we'll produce a top-notch development environment for the
> > > PIC16C84 which can be compiled for just about any platform.
> >
> > Sounds great but I see no mention of a programmer.
> > This is fairly key in the development environment isn't it?
> Not in this instance. Since the initialize target is the 16C84 and there
> are several designeds out for programming it. The COM84 programmer is
> quite effective.


Absolutely! It's the only thing I use but it's certainly not cross
platform.

> I plan to use a separate serial based loader to load up the EEPROM
> thus removing the need for the board to have to load it.

You're going to go to a different machine to load up? I don't follow.


> It's just in the thought phase right now...
>
> But the bottom line is that we have programmers but very little in the
> way of programming tools that are cross platform.

We don't have cross platform programmers. COM84 is completely tied to
DOS - it won't even work in Windows.

/\/\att.