Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Vanishing applications...

I've talked before about the weakness in the web.

It's happened again.

Microchip, the manufactures of PIC microcontrollers, has acquired Hi-Tech Software, who used to produce, among other things a C compiler for PICs. And a freeware compiler for DOS/Windows. An 8051 C compiler. A TI MSP430 compiler. A Cypress PSOC compiler.

But, it's not in Microchip's interest to support competing microcontrollers.

So, all the compilers except for Microchip PIC C have vanished from their webstite. They will support their customers until the end of their contract, but I would not expect much. Nor can anyone download the trial version just to experiment with the chip.

More software has vanished into the "bit bucket..."

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