AVR-Chat

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>   Not too cumbersome. Invest a few bucks in a KVM. I did this a few  months
>ago and it's has really improved productivity around here. I personally
>like having all my eggs in one basket for development, but....

Hmm.. I tried those before, and had bad luck. but they were just mechanical 
switches.
Is there better stuff available now?

>    The extra dollars for a dedicated dev box seem minor when compared to
>the wasted hours and frustration.
>    Does not have to be a powerhouse, just the bare minimum to do the job.

Yeah, I would have rather spend that $500 twoard buying a nice little system.

>Get it working and then freeze it. Make a disk image, and when things start
>getting flaky restore the snapshot and reset to a known condition.
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>   (had my own nightmares with ice-200)

You know, I never had a problem with the ICE-200, but I haven't actually 
used it since before S4 came out.
That may not be a coincidence.
It was solid as a rock for me under the older S2.x and 3.x
I shoveled out some BIG projects with that thing, in fact my first project 
was on an 8515, and I went from "what's an AVR" to a completed commercial 
project in 6 weeks.