Lindy Mayfield wrote, "You don't even get debug anymore."

DEBUG.EXE is still distributed with Windows to this day.  It may not be
of a lot of use today, but it is still there read for those that know
what to do with it.

-Mario


-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Lindy Mayfield
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 4:12 AM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: RE: [EE] I say it is spinach . . .


Actually, what you said was you did "lots and lots and lots" and that
all compilers, assemblers, OS's and other such tools should all be free.
For a software company that produces compilers and tools, this would be
pretty much exclusive; or that was how I interpreted it.

Actually I didn't mean to be sarcastic or argumentative.  I believe the
open source software movement has its place and is very valuable.  Also,
Microchip making their assembler and development tools "free" was a
strategic marketing decision that put them ahead of the competition in
many respects.  

So to be fair, given this reasoning, the fact that you get compilers and
other tools with a standard Unix environment and not one with Microsoft
makes IMHO Microsoft OS's pretty much crippled to begin with.  (You
don't even get debug anymore. (-: When that went away, I stopped
subscribing to PC Magazine.)

Actually this could go round and round.  

So I reinterpret what you were saying as, it would be nice if more tools
and such were free.  




-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
Of John Nall
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 3:52 AM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [EE] I say it is spinach . . .

Lindy Mayfield wrote:

>I thought he was joking...
>
>I've heard of lawyers doing pro bono, but not exclusively.
>  
>
Oh gosh, did I say exclusively????  Must have been a typo.  Are you 
sure?  Hard to believe that I would have said that, but I suppose a 
mistake is possible.  No, not exclusively, of course not.  (Are you sure

I said that???)

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