Yes, the PC will talk to the PICs and PICs to PC. Never PIC2PIC.
(Atleast I cant think of any reason for them to do it)

I am kinda leaning towards RS485 more and more since I can add
even more than 4 PICs and still keep speed (access time down)
and have good noise rejection (the transient thread is still fresh ;)
In this project I'll use atleast 6 PIC16F877s, and hooking them all up
to the same bus would be neat. Add some bootloader code and
it would be possible to upgrade all pics from one place !

Also various 485 ICs state speed of min 4Mbps ! I am not sure how
that is gonna be done; from what I understand 485 is 'RS232' running on
a 485 bus. I have never seen RS232 do more than 112kbps.
Maybe a parallell prn (PC) interface to a PIC then the PIC's RX/TX
to the bus @ 4 Mbps ???


From: "wouter van ooijen & floortje hanneman
> The only 'official' way to do this (assuming you want the PC to talk to the
> PICs and the PICs to the PC, not PICs to PICs) is to daisy chain the
> devices

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