> Peller Balazs Karoly wrote:
> >
> > I bought a Picstart Plus developer tool. It works on my computer under
> > Windows 3.1 perfectly, but I want use it under Windows NT 4.0. (with
> > Service Pack 3)
> > I installed the MPLAB 3.31 and 3.4 successfully under NT, but when I start
> > reading from a PIC, both of them produce the following error
> > message:
> >
> >   Communication Error
> >   Command [8D] not echoed properly [AB].
> >
> > Could you help me, what's going on here?
>
> This is the same thing I discovered a week and a half ago in the middle
> of a REALLY BAD COMPUTER day. Simple answer: PICSTART does not work when
> MPLAP 3.40 is installed under NT. Dammit! Oh, and to be complete, PIC
> Master doesn't work either.
>
> Scott

The only solution I know is to get MPLab 3.09.10 and run that. It
works just fine, which proves that Microchip USED to know how to work
the PICStart under NT 4.0.  Doesn't support the latest chips, though.
 I still can't believe the gall of MChip in ignoring NT users.

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