Agree. As a matter of fact, some of our machines are still using MPLAB 8.3= 0. It=20 is stable and fast, why change if not necessary. (Honestly, most of the tim= e,=20 higher releases doesn't seem to getting better.) It is just another MBA story of "I got money to spend". Funny N. Au Group Electronics, http://www.AuElectronics.com http://www.AuElectronics.com/products http://augroups.blogspot.com/ ________________________________ From: Olin Lathrop To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Sent: Thu, October 28, 2010 10:58:39 AM Subject: Re: [PIC] MPLAB 8.60 jim@jpes.com wrote: > At the risk of sounding naive, what is MPLAB X? MPLAB was getting too stable and reliable, so something had to be done. After much mating of elephants, it was decided to completely ditch all the existing code and rewrite the whole thing in Java. That will provide years of work for Vince and company fixing the endless new bugs, trying to make the simulator run even a decent fraction of the speed it does now, listen t= o complaints about taking away ICE support, and the like. > And what makes it so different from MPLAB as we know it now? It's a complete rewrite in a different language. That not only means new and exciting bugs, but almost certainly some developers won't be able to resist the temptation to make the user interface just different enough to b= e a pain to those of us regularly using the existing MPLAB. Microchip has much fun planned for us. Too bad much of it won't envolve productively debugging new PIC code. ******************************************************************** Embed Inc, Littleton Massachusetts, http://www.embedinc.com/products (978) 742-9014. Gold level PIC consultants since 2000. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist =20 --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .