> > > 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.
>
> Why can't it be. Doesn't Unix and MAC platforms have the ability to
> fiddle twiddle the bits so that it can program?

No reason it can't be. The point is it isn't. I don't have the know
how to write one myself.


> See I'm trying to get this system for my students so that they can
> load their programs to the system dozens, hundreds, or thousands of times.
> And I need it to run from a Linux box.

Thats where we differ then. I'm more interested in the electronics
side and don't want the overhead of a complete development system
tied to every PIC. (And I prefer programming in PIC assembly language
which is completely portable.)


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