On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:48:09 -0600, you wrote:

>
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> You cannot get two instances of MPLAB to run.
>> "Lock violation".
>>
>> You can't even get two different versions to INSTALL.
>> They stomp on each others registry entries. (5 vs 6  since I wanted ICD
>and ICD2
>> at the same time).
>>
>
>I use a dual monitor system and I can put MPLAB     v5.70 on one
>monitor MPLAB v7.31 on the other.  This doesn't serve any useful
>purpose but I tried it just to see if it would work and it does.  My dual
>monitor system works very well for debugging using MPLAB v7.31
>
>CR

This can be a useful setup actually, e.g. Picmaster under 5.70 and  Picstart with new firmware (that
5.7 doesn't understand) under 7.30

As second PCs/laptops are so cheap these days, don't really see that it's worth Microchip spending
effort supporting multiple instances/emulators for a tiny proportion of users...
 



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