On Mon, 1 May 2006, Sean Schouten wrote: > You meant to say that everything is a *file*!!! (I hope...) Every file with the x bit set is a program ;-) English text that makes some sense and has the x bit set is a script ;-) ;-) > Like what tools ? Eclipse ? > > Like MPLAB, Multisim, LTSPICE (SWCAD), Ultiboard, Mathcad, LabVIEW and > that's basically it. I already use open office under windows for all of my > word processing. MPLAB runs under Wine, LTSPICE runs under Wine, Mathcad exists for Linux afaik and there is Scilab, LabVIEW has a Linux version afaik. Don't know about Multisim. I would like to know if someone has a higher end CPU and runs SPICE on it. Does it make a serious difference ? By higher end I mean a dual AMD $1200 CPU or similar. Peter -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist