> > Now, I have thought a bit about what hardware to use
> > as the base of a "student-kit". I think that Wouters
>
>   Building the JDM style serial port programmer and using

For cost-sensitive education the choice is: lowest cost per seat or
lowest cost per programmer. Using a JDM might be a choice for the lowest
cost per programmer, but I would suggest a 'serious' programmer, which
in my opinion is one that uses a port (serial,parallel,USB) for data
communication only, not for the actual programming communication.

My DB016 board is aimed at loweest-cost-per-seat: one bord per seat
(with bootloader), on real programmer per classroom.

Wouter van Ooijen

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