Lynn Richardson <lrich@qni.com> wrote:

> I bought the Picstart Plus last summer because Microchip said it
> would program ALL their pic chip products.  A few months later I
> find I need to replace/change the firmware in the adaptor to
> program the new 12C5xx parts.  I think it is fair to extrapolate
> that when Microchip comes out with new PIC parts, further changes
> will be needed to the firmware.

    Think what you like, Lynn... The truth, however, is that there
    are only a few programming algorithms that are shared among all
    the PIC procesors, and that's not intended to change.

    -Andy

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