At 18:26 11/02/99 -0800, Scott wrote:

>Which portions are you thinking about releasing? As you know, there's a
>background task running right now on reverse engineering the picstart
>protocol. I can't speak for everyone, but I know several people who like
>to use their Picstart's under Linux. Releasing the Picstart code will just
>make this happen faster (I presume...).

Is the 16B protocol the same as the Plus?  If so, it sounds like a great
idea.  And is there any chance of Microchip releasing MPLAB for Linux/X?  I
would expect there would be a lot of interest, even if it upsets the
reverse engineers trying to do it themselves...

Nigel