On Feb 1, 2008 12:54 AM, Bob Blick <bbblick@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> --- "M. Adam Davis" <stienman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Well, I run Vista 64 on a custom built system and
> > while it has its
> > annoyances, I just don't see why people are having
> > such difficulty.

I agree with Adam. I just do not know why people in this
list (mostly not average home users). My wife is
an average user and she is happy with Vista now.

> If you run Vista 64 on a custom built system, I'd say
> that you like fiddling with computers and there's not
> much you'd consider an "annoyance" or "difficulty".
> Perhaps you are not a "fanboy" or "apologist", but
> clearly you are not an average home or business user.
> But people like me need people like you to work out
> the bugs, because I don't like it when computers need
> to be coaxed to work. How well does MPLAB run on Vista
> 64? How many versions of it have you installed? Was
> that fun?

MPLAB is not supported under Vista 64 since the drivers
(ICD2 etc) are not ported to Vista 64 yet. However
Vista 32 works fine.

> When I sit at a computer I want the time to be
> billable hours.

Now it will be interesting to see how Linux compares
to Vista 32 if you want to use MPLAB as the example.
Simply put, MPLAB does not work under Linux. And
doing PIC work under Linux will not be smooth at
all since the hardware components of MPLAB do
not work under Linux. You can use VMWare/Windows
to get it work but that is Windows and Linux after all.


Xiaofan
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