You've still got to get your 'original' code onto the PIC.
I suppose you could attach a couple of switches to the programming pins =
and wiggle them up and down really fast to load in a program but it =
feels a bit of a step back to me.

In the good old days, we use to write a monitor program for say a Z80 or =
6502. The monitor prog, supported a HEX keypad and multiplexed LED =
display for example. Using these, you entered your program into memory =
and then ran it. When it crashed, you hit the reset button and your =
monitor prog sprang back into life so you could edit your program.

I suppose you could do the same with a PIC ?

The real pain in those days was you had to do all the assembly by hand.



-----Original Message-----
From: Peter L. Peres [mailto:plp@ACTCOM.CO.IL]
Sent: 16 June 2002 20:23
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [OT]: My new car MP3 controller


On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Joe Farr wrote:

>Actually, until there's an assembler that runs on a pic to make pic =
.HEX
>files it's never going to happen

Do interpreted languages that can self-modify count ? How about 18Fxxx
which can do this to itself. Genetic code anyone ? Who knows what a PIC
could teach itself ;-).

Peter

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