Peter van Hoof wrote:
>
> First of all , Tim is right..... there are several FREE vxd device drivers
> for both the serial and the parallel port under NT that Microchip could have
> used to write MPLAB for some reason they choose not to do so.
>

The current MPLAB serial drivers are NT compliant.  There was no need to
go to a third party VXD for PICSTART Plus or PRO MATE.  MPLAB-ICD will
run under NT in the next release.  This one was a little out of Microchip's
control --it was spec'd as NT compliant, but first delivery was not.

The problem of getting MPLAB-ICE compliance is a much bigger problem.
The way the drivers are currently structured, there are so many calls
to the I/O that, under NT, it slooowws waaaay doowwn.  It will run,
but who wants to wait a couple of minutes when you single step?  The
drivers are being re-structured so that data gets collected and passed
in larger buffers, requiring fewer calls to switch from the 16-bit
MPLAB application to NT I/O access.

Another option would be to make MPLAB run under Win 95/98/NT/2000 only.

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