John Temples wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Roy J. Gromlich - PA wrote:
> 
> 
>>Now that's nice.  I have two computers here - one running Win98SE and the other running Win0Me.
>>Neither is capable of running Win-XP, as there are NO DRIVERS available for either one of them to
>>support those OS releases.
> 
> 
> "Not supported" doesn't mean "won't run."  It just means they won't
> test it on those OSes.
> 
> Win98 itself is "not supported" by Microsoft.
> 
> 
>>Thank you MicroChip - I suppose I will have to look at the Atmegas after all.
> 
> 
> Do you really think Atmel will give you lifetime Win98 support for
> their tools?


It's lifetime support as long as you don't UPGRADE anything.

And it's not that the tools won't WORK on Win 9x/ME.
It's just that they won't be TESTED and guaranteed to work.

As it is, Microchip dropped ICD support after version 5, yet the
unit is perfectly capable of programming 'A' flavour chips,
albeit as a bit of a hack (updated firmware translates from non 'A'
programming algorithm).
It's not like it was THAT hard to keep ICD support in later flavours
of MPLAB, but they dropped it in flavour of their own (ICD2) hardware.

Robert


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