What do you mean what gives.   What you say is true.  I didn't
 say anything contrary to that, did I?  If I did, I didn't mean
 to.

                                           Regards,

                                             Jim


>On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Mr and Mrs James Paul wrote:
>
>>  OTP parts are really EPROM devices without a window to erase
>>  them.  ROM parts are actually Masked ROM parts.  You have to
>>  send your code to Microchip, and they hard code it into the
>>  part.  The result of this is that the parts are much cheaper
>>  than using OTP parts, if you have enough volume to justify the
>>  initial setup costs.  Hope this helps.
>>
>
>What?
>I thought that you could program OTPs yourself, but you just couldnt erase

>it once you did.  What gives?
>
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