On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Olin Lathrop wrote:
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> chip coming out next quarter.  For some reason people seem to have an
> amazing capacity to be penny-wise and pound-foolish.
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Uh-oh, I know you are trolling and yet I reply. hmm.

It's a big world out there, Olin. There are many reasons to build your own
programmer. Although it's often a money issue, even some rich Americans
like myself like to build their own(I also have a Picstart+). For some
it's a moral issue - they won't run Windows. Kudos to those brave souls
(I'm a dual-boot guy). I'm sure there will be others posting to the list
to help enlighten you to the other reasons why it's a good idea for them
to do things for reasons you never thought of.

In answer to the original poster's question:
The 16F84 and 16C84 are interchangeable as far as the device programmer is
concerned, and the only difference in the driver software invloves the
protect bits, but if you don't set the protect bits you don't need to
change the settings. Note the 16F84 has more ram, but the device
programmer doesn't see that.

Cheers,

Bob

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