++ for SSD and lots of RAM.

-Pete

On Oct 17, 2011, at 4:34 PM, M.L. wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Mark Hanchey <mark@pixeltrickery.com> w=
rote:
>> I can work around most of these, but I was wondering what others are
>> doing. Are you staying with an older OS for compatibility or are you
>> toughing it out slowly changing to a newer OS ? I am at the point of
>> considering going back to xp for my development pc but I hate the idea
>> of going to an OS I know will not be supported in the future. Curious
>> what others are doing here .
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> Mark,
> I use Windows 7 on all of my machines now.
> I use MPLAB extensively. I don't rely on much legacy software.
> I use the Embed Inc environment for PIC development and it works fine.
> I also use cygwin and create Makefiles to build my large PIC projects,
> which allows me to utilize multiple cores (4 in laptop, 2 on desktop)
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> My USB projects for work use Embed Inc's USB driver which works fine
> on all 32 bit Windows environments but not 64 bit - for that I use
> libusb.
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> And with how cheap computer hardware is, I don't find a good reason to
> skimp on hardware. I put solid state drives in both of my machines and
> the productivity increase is well worth the cost.
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