>Just to confuse you (and to not disappoint me), Andy Kunz will
>now tell you why he gets off on Hitech. Take it away Andy....

I agree with everything Tjaart just said.

I too have legal copies of HiTech (http://www.htsoft.com Lyle<G>) and
Microchip's stuff, and have used CCS in the past but sold it to somebody
who wanted a cheap setup.

I don't like the HiTech IDE - I work in Windows all the time, and try to
avoid project files.  Fortunately, HiTech integrates well with the Mathias
emulator (and I'm told with MPLAB also).

My experience with both Bytecraft (for other stuff) and HiTech is that both
provide excellent support, and both know compilers and a variety of chip
very well.  I originally went with HiTech due to having used the Avocet
compilers for eons.

I don't regret my decision one bit.  I've encouraged my customers and
employers to purchase it as well.  Another thing - the HiTech assembler is
FANTASTIC.  It supports all the things that a "real" assembler should, and
does it quite well.

Andy

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