> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>
>>> HOWEVER what I have not investigated is what the ICD2 can do with
>>> the Vpp voltage. Is it adjustable, or is it fixed like the ICD1.
>>> That is about the only difference that I can think of that might
>>> make them want to obsolete the ICd1.
>>
>>
>>
>> What about maintaining a separate batch of engineering
>> documentation ? The adminstration and quality control
>> of the docs are a fair bit of the total cost of keeping an
>> old product line up-to-date.
>> After all, *every* company phases out old products now
>> and then...
>
>
> Sure.
> But since the 'product' is software based, there is no good
> reason to NOT keep it up to date, given that the changes
> in the newer chips is a slight change in the way that programming
> is done. They only have to support the few commands that ICSP
> requires. Set address, read, erase, program, bulk erase.
> The drivers for the ICD1/2 are already written. They only
> need build the data tables for the new chips.
>
> Microchip, what is the REAL reason you have stopped supporting
> ICD1 & 2? Whatever happened to 'the customer is usually right'?
>
> Robert
>
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