William Chops Westfield wrote :

> > Well, many "programmers" (non-bootloader types, like the Wisp628)
> > has some kind of firmware in the programmer itself, that take care
> > of most device dependant differences .
>
> Sure, but this is at the expense of, well, expense; in the form of
> needing a micro in the programmer itself, and having to deal with
> probable upgrades of that micro.

Well, the *firmware* PIC could use a bootloader, I'd guess :-)

> A Bootloader gives you the simplicity of a trivial programmer with
> the device independence of a smarter programmer.  (But of course
> you need pics that have the boot code in them already.)

And there are some interesting PIC you can't use at all, as the
12F series...

Jan-Erik.

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