> I do not have a Mac. However, take a new PIC hobbyist, what can
> he do with a Mac? There is no MPLAB. He needs to build gputils
> and sdcc. Does gpsim work under a Mac? Does piklab works under
> a Mac? At least MPLAB/gputils/sdcc/gpsim work under Windows.

I was a new PIC developer about 2 years ago. Never owned a PC. I do
all my PIC development on a Mac using gputils and xcode. I built my
own programmer. It's not rocket science by a long shot. I don't know
whether gpsim works on a Mac, but I wouldn't be using it if it did.

>  And Apple has dropped the"computer" from its name.

What is that supposed to mean, exactly? Is there a secret rule about
the names of computer companies? If it doesn't have 'computer' in the
name then it's not to be taken seriously? Where does that leave HP?
Where does that leave Microsoft?
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