> I hope they don't drop Atmel Studio and AVRDude in favor of forcing MPLAB= x > onto a larger market. But it will be nice to be able to have common > programing hardware eventually. Maybe they have realised MPLAB-X is a hopeless case, and part of this is ge= tting the Atmel tools for use on PIC chips ;))))) --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .