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Hi All, I've found that Windows has become very unstable for me over the past few months, and I much prefer Linux (RedHat 7). Does anyone know of any software similar to MPLAB, that runs on Linux, and supports the PICSTART PLUS programmer? Regards, Chris Pringle

Yea, windoze tends to do that. I've made it a ritual to reinstall windows every few months. I assure you this cures 99.9% of the lockups, GPFs, BSODs, etc. As far as Linux, how did you get ahold of RedHat 7!? (Translation: "RedHat 7 doesn't exist; latest is 6.2," unless you mean Mandrake 7?). Regards, Tim Hamel In a message dated 5/30/00 4:28:32 AM Pacific Daylight Time, spam_OUTcpringleTakeThisOuTLATRIGG.DEMON.CO.UK writes: > Hi All, > I've found that Windows has become very unstable for me over the past few > months, and I much prefer Linux (RedHat 7). Does anyone know of any software > similar to MPLAB, that runs on Linux, and supports the PICSTART PLUS > programmer? > > Regards, > Chris Pringle

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Chris Pringle wrote: > Hi All, > I've found that Windows has become very unstable for me over the past few months, and I much prefer Linux (RedHat 7). Does anyone know of any software similar to MPLAB, that runs on Linux, and supports the PICSTART PLUS programmer? For a (primarily) Linux based simulator, check out gpsim: http://www.dattalo.com/gnupic/gpsim.html Where I JUST released development version 0.19.2 . For an MPASM compatible assembler: http://www.dattalo.com/gnupic/gpasm.html Scott

Unfortunately nothing like MPLAB exists for any OS other than Windows. You might try using MPLAB under WINE (windows emulator). Wine is still considered beta, but it should be good enough for MPLAB. Alternately, take Scott's GPSIM, GPASM, and you favorite text editor as glue and you can create your own IDE. -Adam Chris Pringle wrote: > > Hi All, > I've found that Windows has become very unstable for me over the past few months, and I much prefer Linux (RedHat 7). Does anyone know of any software similar to MPLAB, that runs on Linux, and supports the PICSTART PLUS programmer? > > Regards, > Chris Pringle

Thanks, I'll have a look at that. At least then I will have an OS that stays up for more than an hour at a time. Regards Chris Pringle {Original Message removed}

Hi, for the Picstart PLUS programmer: http://www.cosmodog.com Regards, Imre On Tue, 30 May 2000, Scott Dattalo wrote: {Quote hidden}> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Chris Pringle wrote: > > > Hi All, > > I've found that Windows has become very unstable for me over the past few months, and I much prefer Linux (RedHat 7). Does anyone know of any software similar to MPLAB, that runs on Linux, and supports the PICSTART PLUS programmer? > > > For a (primarily) Linux based simulator, check out gpsim: > > http://www.dattalo.com/gnupic/gpsim.html > > Where I JUST released development version 0.19.2 . > > For an MPASM compatible assembler: > > http://www.dattalo.com/gnupic/gpasm.html > > Scott > >

Hai, I'm not familair yet window developing PIC software on a Linux box. I do now that the C2C compiler is compatible with Linux. And I guess programming a PIC from a Linux box is posible to. That one thing I can say is that Linux is robust. My servers here ans at company runs smothly (only one real crash because I run out of temporary disk space). At home it never crached and my laptop never crashed. I use the Debian distributions (slink). Ries