Olin Lathrop wrote:

> Xiaofan Chen wrote:
>> The truth is that Promate II and Promate III are not mass production
>> ready.
> 
> This is interesting to hear, because they are sold as production programmers
> by Microchip.  I know they are expensive and physically klunky, but had
> always assumed them to be solid.  What about them do you not consider
> production ready?

The other question I have is: If Microchip can't make reliable production
programmers for sale, can they make reliable production programmers for
in-house use (which I assume they need when selling pre-programmed chips)?

Gerhard

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