Michael Hagen wrote:
...
> You ask Why one would like MPLAB?
> I like MPLAB because it runs all their hardware from one IDE.

NO it DOESN'T!
They obsoleted the ICD1 for no apparent reason. ICSP is ICSP.
Breakpoint is a breakpoint.
They dynamically change the firmware in the ICD2 when chosen chip family
or mode (debug/program) is changed, so there is no reason why
they couldn't do the same thing for the ICD1 if they really needed to.

How many thousands of ICD1's were obsoleted when MPLAB 6 came out?

> My code hardly ever runs untill I do simple debug with their simulator.  

Unfortunately their simulator does NOT emulate serial ports which
is a real PITA when developing interrupt driven serial interfaces.
(SPI/UART/I2C).

Robert

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