Wally Barnacle wrote :

> Hi Wouter

Of course you are very welcome to say "Hi" to Wouter
whenever you want, but it was me asking :-) :-)

Anwyay...

> To put it another way why would anybody want to use a
> programmer that does as many chips as possible for such
> a state of affairs?

Economics
A single-chip-programmer could very well cost *more* since it
probably would have a smaller market and be a special design
for this task. Larger volumes -> lower cost, right ?

> As stated in another thread, why obsfuscate the the
> situation since once you know how any micro does what
> it does, you can apply it to any other micro outside
> the classrooom.

You still have to configure your environment (MPLAB or whatever)
with regards to the the selected target chip.

Jan-Erik

--
http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us!
email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body