>For more serious development, you might want to use Microchip's "better"
>programmer, the Pro Mate, but it is significantly more expensive than the
>PicStart.

        But what is the difference in the Pro Mate? The ability to program/test=
 the PIC in Max/Min vcc??? What does it a "better" programmer?

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