On Thu, 30 Oct 1997 14:25:33 -0700, you wrote:

>     We hope this doesn't offend anyone and apologize in advance if you
>     think it is improper, but it seems like this group of people might be
>     interested in some new positions that have just opened up at
>     Microchip.  There has been a fair amount of talk about Microchip tools
>     on this forum and Microchip is responding by increasing the size of
>     the Development Systems software group.
About time too - it's been painfully obvious how under-resourced 
this dept is from the very slow response to bugs & mis-features in
MPLAB, and the general lack of development other than new device
support.