> >> Ic-prog? Is it a programmer or just a software?
> >
> > it is just softwaree, but it suppports a wide range of (too) simple
> > hardware (the typical serial-port pin-wiggling proggers). Not my
> > recommended choice, but it is what a lot of starters use.
>
> There are a bunch in that class.  If you look at ic-prog, winpic,
winpicprog
> and the like, probably 75-95% of all hobbyists at least started with that
> sort of approach.  Today perhaps a USB programmer makes more sense, but if
> you want to penetrate the hobbyist market, then you need to be looking at
> the non-proprietary programmers, no matter how bad an idea you think that
> is.
>
> But if you (i.e. Microchip) take a disdainful attitude toward the "typical
> serial-port pin-wiggling proggers"  then you are writing off virtually all
> the hobbyists, save the tiny few with understanding wives.

I build and sell "typical serial-port pin-wiggling proggers" programmers and
have made PICmicro popular with students and hobbyists along with ICD2
equivalent.

Due to the cost difference between the origanal and clones, the clones sell
more :-).

Cheers

Ravi

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