On Tue, Jul 08, 1997 at 10:22:25AM -0400, myke predko wrote:

> 2.  Speed up MP-SIM in MPLAB.  A good target would be 10K instruction cycles
> per second on a 100 MHz Pentium.

10K???? That's not exactly setting your sights high. I have a PIC16Cxx simulator
that manages over 1 million instruction cycles/second on a Pentium-100 (32 bit
code under NT4.0). And that's all written in portable C.

(The Win95/NT command line version is at http://www.htsoft.com/pic/simpic.exe if
you want it. Run as "simpic xxx" to load xxx.hex and xxx.sym).

> 4.  Have MPLAB "remember" what project was being last executed on start-up.

I'd add to that;

* have MPLAB handle mouse clicks in the window that they're
  made in, not some other window
* sensibly size SFR windows etc. when first opened;
* allow more than one source file per project
* provide a properly documented symbol file format it will read.
* Make the Run/Stop keys/buttons the same thing (why have one key to
  start, and another to stop??)
* Allow hot keys to be configured (I hate function keys) - for a simulator
  the keypad keys Ins/Enter/+/- are very convenient to use. Ins for start/stop,
  + for source step, - for assembler step. These fall naturally under your
  right hand (thumb on Ins, peter pointer on + and -)

* 32 bit (Win95/NT) version of MPLAB.

> 6.  Publish the MPLAB programmer/emulator interfaces so that third parties
> can come up with their own hardware.

I've asked for that (but for the opposite reason - to provide alternative
software) and the official response has been "no".

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