You could but it might not be cost effective depending on labor costs,=20
tax deductions and the whole array of corporate capital equipment=20
accounting calculations. Over many years of service and required OS=20
migrations a home grown solution's costs can really add up (especially=20
if you have to get a lot of departments involved, hardware engineering,=20
software engineering, manufacturing engineering, production, IT, etc.).=20
Plus you probably won't get the high throughput and you would not be=20
able to program so many different manufacturers micros and other types=20
of devices.

Paul Hutch

On 8/15/2015 12:01 AM, Neil wrote:
> Ouch!  Why couldn't you do the same with a small PC, a handful of
> pickits or other programmers, and a batch script?
>
> Cheers,
> -Neil.
>

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