Just hope more company will do this as well especially for toolchain vendors. Byte Craft(?? do not know their current PICC tools though) /Hitech /CCS are doing a good job here in the PICC market. However I see difficulties when it comes to hardware support. Maybe it is really difficult to follow this approach since the driver models are quite different and Wine's hardware support is lagging. Xiaofan -----Original Message----- From: Walter Banks [mailto:walter@bytecraft.com] Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 5:21 AM To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Subject: Re: [PIC] PIC development under Linux with Wine. Wine and similar programs for Unix/Linux and most mac's have become so good at duplicating the functionality of the windows environment that all a product developer has to do is obey the rules and not circumvent the operating system. We (Byte Craft) looked at development parings a couple years ago and decided that the alternative of a clean implementation made more sense. This approach significantly reduces the costs and improves the reliability for a small market product. w.. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist