> I have successfully gotten MPLAB 4.0 to work on WinNT 5.0 (Windows 2000)
> beta 2. It had no problems programming the pic.  I think that the problem
> in the pass with earilier versions of MPLab was that they used the old
> 16bit API for communicating with the serial port, so it would only work on
> winnt 3.51 or lower with win 95.  And in rare cases win 98.  However, from
> the looks of things version 4.0 of MPLAB works great on both 98, and NT
> 5.0 so I am safely assuming that they are using the 32bit communication
> functions(CreateFileEx...).
 If they are using a 32 bit comm function why does it still not work
under NT4SP4?
 Perhaps MicroChip should hire Jim Robertson (Newfound
Electronics) as a consultant.
>
> Howard McGinnis wrote:
>
> > Any one sucessful at getting MPLAB to communicate with a PICS Start Plus
> > reliably under Windows NT 4.0. It works under 3.51, but no dice under
> > 4.0. Docs indicate it does work with NT, but it said that when I was
> > using it under 3.51
> >
> > TIA
> > Howard