Replying to my own thread (a little late), I just tried using my
PICkit 3 with MPLAB 8.30 running on a WinXP VM under Parallels...and
it worked! I haven't tried debug but it programmed a 12F683 with no
problems.

I'm pretty pleased!

Josh
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