The V6.3 version is a lot faster and seems to be cleaner
to use. It has some interface changes which take a bit
of getting used to but overall it is a nice package.

As for OSs - I have V 6.3 running quite nicely on
Win-98, Win-98 2nd Edition, Win-ME and Win-2K. As
you probably already know, you are unlikely to be
able to install Win2K or Win-XP on your machine,
and I would try to avoid Win-ME.


Win-98 (2nd) is a fairly straight forward upgrade from
Win-95 and a whole lot more robust and more reliable.
That having been said, the problem is getting a copy,
since Win-98 in all of it's forms is obsolete.  There
are suppliers out there who have old installable copies
to sell - usually at a good price.  If I run across the
name of one of them I will post it here.


Roy J. Gromlich


 Mike W wrote :
>
> > I've just downlosded the latest MPLAB and at 30mB its quite a
> > struggle on a dialup connection.
>
> Amen !
>
> > However, I wasted my time as it
> > won't run on windows 95.
>
> As the readme file says (that you could have read
> before downloded the complete kit...)
>
> > What was the last issue of MPLAB that would ?.
>
> Possibly some V5-thing, *but* you will miss support
> for a lot (all) of the newer PICs, so you'd better
> think about the OS platform you are using ! The IDE
> is also better in V6 I think, but I know others
> that don't...
>
> Besides, not even Microsoft has been supporting
> Win95 for several years, I think.
>
> Jan-Erik.
>



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