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> kits are one of the better programmers out there.
> PICkit is so so but the user would soon out grow it.


Now I'm not saying anything about other programmers being better, as I am
sure there are better programmers out there, but I've had the PICkit 2 for
some time now, and doubt I will grow out of it soon. It does everything I
would ever want: ICSP and (using the demoboard and a board I created myself)
off-line programming of a wide range of PICmicros, which include all the
ones I have, and more. It is also fast enough (at least twice as fast as my
JDM programmer) and might be integrated with MPLAB as well. But I should
phrase this as a question: what makes the PICkit 2 "so so" and cause users
to "soon out grow it"?

Greetings,
Maarten Hofman.
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