On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 16:02:31 +0500, James Paul wrote: ..snip...
>software. =A0Something they don't have to do. =A0But, after all,=
 they are
>doing this from the goodness of their heart, hoping (I guess)=
 that you
>will go on to HLL's and 3rd party stuff.

No company does "FREE" from the goodness of their hearts. It's=
 because
it's in their best interest and sells chips. If it didn't, it=
 wouldn't
exist.

>So my advice is either accept MPALB for what it is, or go and=
 spend
>your money for something you do like and has the speed you're=
 looking
>for.

What else is there? Believe me, with the amount of money I spend=
 on
tools I'd love to have an alternative to MPLAB (IDE, simulator,=
 source
level debugger, programmer interface, emulator interface). The=
 only one
I know of is IAR and it only comes bundled with their C compiler=
 (not
all that great, IMO, compared to others) and is expensive (over=
 $2000
last I checked).

Matt Pobursky
Maximum Performance Systems

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