Hi, [EE] community!

   I can't come up for the brisk discussion of the gold etxtraction
somewhere in South Africa, so my question will be a sort
off topic, sorry.

   You know those microcontrollers with built-in RS-232 boot-strap
logic (some golden PICs, some Atmel Megas , others).
   Did anybody hear of a chipmaker, who announced, he would
maintain a WWW service, that could enable someone to program
his blank application boards. Just attach one of the standard app
boards to COM port, click on a selected (sub)program, then it will
do the rest.
   I am about to make a strategic choice what line of controllers to
use. I need not to dig in all this developer's toolkits. I am full up with
this DOS-like style of life, eternally reinventing a wheel.
   What I need, is to work in usual MS environment with all this
activeX, reusability, automation stuff. Do I love or loathe
Microsoft? I don't know. What I do know, it helps me making my
living.

Good gold hunting!

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