jhobbs wrote:
> 
> >> Features:   Also simulates PIC 16C5x
> >>             Step backwards
> >>             Stimulus files
> >>             Checkpoints
> >>             Watchdog timer
> >>             Mouse controls
> >>             Profiler
> >>             ASCII I/O instructions
> >>             Similar to Parallax's PSIM
> >>             Runs under DOS
> >>             Works with SPASM and MPASM
> >>             Source code included
> >>             Absolutely free
> 
> Is Running under dos really a feature? :)

If some other guy wrote it and is giving it to you for free without
making
*any* money out of it, I'd say running under EDLIN would be a feature.
Hell, running it on an abacus would be just fine.

> 
> Besides who wants to design with a chip that may be dead before it ever
> ships.  The designers of the chip chip (parallax) is looking at $500,000 in
> legal fees, and the contracted manufacture Scenix may end up with there own
> set of problems ($$$) from this fiasco before it is all over.  Hell, they
> may just be a typical ruthless company and burn whatever is left of parallax
> to just save them selves, and why not?

May yes, may not.

> 
> Any how, just now I decided to call scenix about the sx parts, well they
> tell me parts are in but I can not buy them from them, that I must go
> through parallax.  I ask two more times just to make sure that we are
> talking about the sx parts and that they are really in. OK time to call
> parallax.
> 
> I have called parallax, they tell me they have nothing to sell, no sxkey and
> no parts.  Hmm  I tell them that scenix is telling people the parts are in
> and you are selling them.  Well they go check, and a few minutes later they
> tell me they have no parts and they are not sure of when they will get them
> other then soon.  I ask, how soon is soon? I get some hemming and hawing and
> they say not sure!  OK, I let it drop.

They SX key has a SX part in it, right?
Parallax are flogging the SX keys, right?

It makes sense to use the first batch of SX parts to make up as many SX
keys
as possible so people won't kill each other over a development tool.

> 
> P.S.  flames on -  but think about this, if you are doing real design work
> for any sizeable or smart company, there is no way in hell anyone would give
> approval to design in the sx part.
Of course not. I'd would be naive to think there won't be any hiccups.
I wouldn't mind laying my dirty little hands on one of these parts
though...

> 
> Take care  -Jim

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Tjaart van der Walt
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