On 2010-10-28 18:56, Alan Melia wrote: > All I see is a huge VM that has been the dream of "cross > platform" for the last X years. From experience all it means is that > you will end up having multiple Java VM's on your machine to support the > differing versions of applications. It is just like .Net, but worse > because they have been doing it longer. Also now Oracle effectively > owns Java it's future is far from certain IMHO. > > Surely it would have made more sense to build a plug-in to Eclipse if > they wanted to go down this route? > Well, it runs under NetBeans, which the same idea, more or less... http://devupdates.microchip.com/mplab/Files/Getting_Started_with_MPLAB-X.pd= f > Hopefully there will still be a command line tool set. I would even > learn Linux if I had to... > > Alan Melia w: www.melmac.co.uk > > -----Original Message----- From: Bento, Joseph (Electronic > Communications Tech) [mailto:JBento@rideuta.com] Sent: 28 October 2010 > 14:43 To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Subject: RE: [PIC] > MPLAB 8.60 > > > > -----Original Message----- From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu > [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of jim@jpes.com Sent: > Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:38 AM To: Microcontroller discussion list - > Public. Subject: RE: [PIC] MPLAB 8.60 > > > All, > > At the risk of sounding naive, what is MPLAB X? And what makes it so > different from MPLAB as we know it now? > > Just curius. > > Regards, > > Jim > > > MPLAB X is Java-based, and cross platform compatible. It will therefore > run natively on Windows, OSX, Linux, etc. > > See http://devupdates.microchip.com/mplab/ > > Joe > > > > > --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .