Oh yes, I admit it is a bit fun. And there are people who 
do not like Windows (not me though). Generally I agree with
you that for most of the people it would be better to set
up a Win2k/Xp box, buy a Wisp628/ICD2 and start the
the "real" work.

However, for me my "real work" is done in Windows in the
daytime and only a minor part of the work is dealing with 
PIC. So why not spend some fun time after work on a different
platform? Maybe for me to fiddling with all these is 
more "real" than browsing the internet and listening to
music. :) Wine is just an intermediate step. I will 
hope more tools like LPLAB/GPutils/GPSim which are native
Linux applications. The best will be that Microchip 
release MPLAB under Windows ( wait long long lah, people
in Singapore will say in Singlish).

As for Windows 98, it is a bit older but there are still
people and business using it or even older product. As a
matter of fact, my work PC was just upgraded to XP from
98SE one months ago. It is perfectly okay for Olin to 
choose to support only 2K/XP though.

Xiaofan

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan-Erik Soderholm [mailto:jan-erik.soderholm@telia.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 3:41 PM
To: piclist@mit.edu
Subject: RE: [PIC] PIC development under Linux with Wine

"Supports" and "works" is not the same. I know at least a couple
of newer PICs that works with Wouter's tools but aren't
listed on Wouter's Wisp628/Xwisp pages.

Why would someone even concider using something
(only?) supporting something as old as Win98 ??

Now, I can understand that fiddling with this could be
some fun as such, but, IMHO, it seems *much* easier
to just setup a W2K or WinXP box and go on with
"real" work...

Jan-Erik.

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