At 09:16 PM 6/5/96 -0500, you wrote:
>For what it's worth, I want to strongly DIScourage newcomers from using the
>Parallax 8051-style assembler language.  You really miss the RISC flavor and
>simplicity of the PIC when it is hidden under the 8051 equivalents.  Go ahead
>and learn it right!

I agree with that. I bought the Parallax programer a few years back. I
decided to use the Parallax macro's because it was much more familiar, with
the Intel assembly language I was used to. But I regreted it when I began to
count instruction cycles to control program timing. And when I mixed
Parallax macro's with Microchip assembly I sometimes 'jumped' or skiped' in
the middle of a Parallax Macro-mine and crashed. That can't happen if you
stick to Microchip. It's not that hard to learn.

Having said that, I think the Parallax programmer works great, and the
manual, materials, and BBS/Ftp support is great too.