Peter asked:

>
>I would be more interested if people could report what operating system
>they used for programmming and code writing. (I read somewhere recently
>that over 40% of computer systems in the USA still operated on W3.11). W98
>gets all the publicity but I suspect that W95 and W3.11 still have a
>'silent majority' following.
>

  I'm a Mac person who started with PICs before there were useable
  Macintosh tools. After months of frustration with emulated DOS etc
  I gave up and bought a PC to use for programming. It runs WIN95
  on a 75 mHz Pentium. I have a Picstart Plus and use MPLAB.

  Reg Neale