Actually, Win2k benchmarks slightly faster than Win98. (And WinMe is a bastard version of 98.) I cannot believe that any company would still have a running version of win95, especially if this company does hardware and/or software development. It is disgustingly easy to damage a win95/98 install, but WinNT/Win2k and Win XP are virtually bullet proof. Severe provocation might blue screen you, but a reboot generally brings the system back.
Once again though, I would like to point out that the MSP GCC is free. Maybe some people do not understand what this implies? To suggest it should be fixed to run on windows 98 ignores the question as to who is going to do the fix? Since nobody currently doing development has any interest in this area, it appears that it will never be addressed (And, why should anyone on the development team care anyway? It works on Linux (And BSD) , and it also works on several flavours of the Windoz operating system. It obviously does the job for the people who are using it, including, it appears, several on the MSP team.) It may have escaped some of the people complaining about the fact of its unreliability on Windows 98 that the compiler used to generate the MSP executables for Windows is also a freebie, and the fault probably lies with that tool, and not the underlying MSP code. The fact that windows 98 blows up on the generated code however does NOT necessarily mean the fault is not with windows 98 ... If you want to run the FREE MSP GCC tools, the easiest fix is, don't use windows 95, or windows 98. (In fact, the installer explodes when trying to install to a 95 machine, so that should not be an issue.) If that is not a viable alternative, you can go and purchase the IAR suit. But for the price of that, you could by a new PC plus operating system and still have cash in hand. (Plus, the IAR tools have bugs as well, as anyone using CSPY will certainly attest! There is no pleasing everybody, or, as we say in the antipodes "Jeez, some people would complain if their arses were on fire! " -----Original Message----- From: mspgcc-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:mspgcc-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net]on Behalf Of Thomas W. Carley Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 11:47 PM To: mspgcc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Mspgcc-users] Problems on Win98 Win98 is NOT faster than NT, 2000, XP. I found that XP uses less memory and runs faster! -----Original Message----- From: mspgcc-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:mspgcc-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Robert Bon Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 3:52 AM To: mspgcc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Mspgcc-users] Problems on Win98 Hello, I am planning to use the mspgcc compiler in future projects. At this moment I am using the IAR compiler and it is running on a windows95 computer. And yes it is the only windows95 in the company. There was a lot of discussions on running mspgcc. I am running win98 on my laptop, and I am not planning to 'upgrade' mine OS to a newer but bigger and slower OS. A bug in the mspgcc compiler running on win98 doesn't mean that there is a bug in win98 but a bug in de mspgcc. The only 'problem' with win98, in stead of winNT, is the behavior of the OS if a bug occurs. Robert Douglas Kennedy wrote: > There has never been a question that it did not work on some windows > platforms. > The reason the WIN98 WINME issue was raised was to either get it fixed or > admit that it didn't work and advise others not to attempt to use it for > those platforms. I failed to get this accomplished and many others like you > have since stepped on the same bug. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Stell" <andyman_msp...@yahoo.com> > To: <mspgcc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 11:53 AM > Subject: Re: [Mspgcc-users] Problems on Win98 > > > I posted a couple days ago with your exact problem. > > The answer everyone gave me was to upgrade to NT, > > Win2K or XP. Or use Linux. I did upgrade to W2K and > > the problem went away. > > > > Andy > > > > > > >>> > > TODD BATZLER wrote: I was eagerly looking forward to > > getting familiar with the msp430family, being very > > familiar with the avr-gcc port. Unfortunately I > > toofound that the msp430-gcc compiler issues a > > "segmentation fault" nomatter what I try to feed in. > > It emplores me only to do a full bugreport, which I've > > never attempted. 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