Roy J. Gromlich - PA wrote:

>Sorry Olin - that's not a very practical suggestion.  If you have an old low-powered machine running Win98SE and try to upgrade to WinXP you will more than likely end up with a good boat anchor.   WinXP makes demands on the hardware that 98SE never dreamed of.  I have several machines running 98SE precisely because they are not powerful enough to run WinXP in any useful fashion.  And some machine - like the HP I am using right now - have no upgrade path to WinXP - there are no hardware drivers for it that work with WinXP.   If you don't want to / can't afford to upgrade your hardware to at least P-IV / 2+ GHz / 500megabyte RAM / 80 gig HD don't bother with WinXP - - - if you want to actually DO anything with the resulting machine.  Speaking from experience - - - 
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I can imagine your feelings,
and why isn't mplab supported under Linux ??

Stef

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