> Wouter, I considered, by some measurement (using basical Windows
> subroutines) that NT or Win 2000 is totally useless in this
> region...Timing
> can differ about 100 per cent or more from time to time. I
> use an old 485
> based computer with Dos for such things, but it's difiicult to do such
> advice for newbees...

For the newer PICs which write very fast I would expect the timing for a
programming that bit-bangs the programming from the PC to be an order of
magnitude worse than for a programmer that just gets the data from the
PC, so even when measurements vary by 100% they would still be
interesting.

And I hope you don't mean to say that every newbie must keep and old
(485-based, where on earth did you find that off-by-one beast ;) ) PC
around just to program PICs!

Wouter van Ooijen

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