> > 13.    Your PicStart Plus may not communicate with a fast processor.
Keep
> a
> > slow machine around as your programmer!
>
> How fast?  What does system CPU speed matter to the serial port?  Is it
> because uC is still sticking to Win16 binaries rather than keeping up with
a
> more accepted Windows API for the newer systems?  Or is it that
motherboard
> makers are pulling out certain backward compatibilities?

I find this hard to believe too.  I've used my Picstart+ with a 933MHz
Pentium III running Windows 2000 without trouble.  My guess is some people
ran into problems for other reasons and somehow thought the faster machine
was the problem.


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Olin Lathrop, embedded systems consultant in Littleton Massachusetts
(978) 742-9014, olin@embedinc.com, http://www.embedinc.com

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