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What does the acronym MPLAB stands for? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.138.174.115 ( talk) 11:36, 16 March 2011 (UTC) reply

I asked their PR department and got the following response:

It doesn’t stand for anything. MPLAB® is the brand name for Microchip’s development tools.

Regards, Eric Lawson CoatThese ( talk) 01:30, 22 May 2016 (UTC) reply

MPLab's gcc ancestry Information

• http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1999&ty=&dty=&section=&NextRow=&ssUserText=gcc

• http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-12/msg00241.html
• http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-04/msg00066.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Parallelized ( talk • contribs) 12:07, 29 January 2008 (UTC) reply
• http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-04/msg00053.html

-- Parallelized ( talk) 12:10, 29 January 2008 (UTC) reply