I am also interested.  I tried and got the same response.  I figured that MicroChip had taken the lazy way and written MPLAB/PICStart code to be Win3.1/Win95 compliant but not WinNT.  For now I have to go use our one-and-only Win95 PC whenever I want to program PICs (all our development PCs run NT).

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From:   CCSystems
Sent:   Thursday, December 04, 1997 11:04 PM
To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject:        Windows NT4 and PICStart Plus?

Any ideas how to get this combo working or should I just forget it?  I have
the latest firmware and MPLAB 3.31 with the updated driver.  I manually set
up the serial port(s) like the readme says.  I consistently get "Command
(8D) not echoed properly (AB)" and then the program hangs requiring me to
end the task.

Andrew Gerald
Custom Communications Systems

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