Sorry to cover old ground... What was the actual problem with 99SE on XP pro?
>From our brief play with it on a friends pc it looks just like W2K with more bloat to carry the 'pretty' front end. I realise that there will be some change to allow for better backwards compatibility for gamers etc. Cheers Don Ingram ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Harland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 10:44 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Protel 99 se SP4 on Windows XP Home > > > Altium is working investing in getting Protel to work in > > > XP. I don't know what > > > you guys think, but Protel is a commercial application > > > product. I don't think it has > > > any business working in XP. Even Altera says that their > > > Quartus will only be > > > certified to work in Win2K. They dropped the idea of trying > > > to get it certified to > > > work in XP. Honestly, the price of these type of packages > > > sometime may demand that > > > you work with a specific OS. > > > I'm all for Protel being supported in as many OSs as > > > possible, but I do not think > > > that non XP support would really affect Altiums customer > > > base. Sure, if Protel was a > > > video game, Altium would lose customers without XP support. > > > I don't Altium should > > > spend their programmer's time supporting consumer grade XP > > > when it work fin in Win2K > > > Professional & WinXP Professional. > > > > > > > The only problem with this is that it may come to the point where one tool > > is certified for Win2k, and another is certified for XP. Then you'll have > to > > run one in an uncertified environment (and probably unsupported > > environment), or dual boot with all the associated hassles. Or even buy a > > dedicated machine for each operating environment. > > > > Matthew van de Werken > > This has overtones of the transition from Win 3.x to Win 95, i.e. from 16 > bit Windows to 32 bit. Protel 3 could run on Win 3.x, but the next version > (Protel 98) needed a 32 bit version of Windows. > > Maybe Phoenix will be able to run on all 32 bit versions of Windows. But > sooner or later, I am picking that MS's requirement for issuing MS > certification for any application (that it is able to run on the most recent > version of Windows) will imply that earlier versions of 32 bit Windows OS's > will no longer be supported by thus certified applications. > > It is not totally out of the question that Phoenix will not run on > "consumer" versions of Windows, such as Win 95, Win 98, and Win ME; as it > is, Altium's attitude is that Protel 99 SE should preferably be run on a > "professional" version of Windows. > > Altium could be in for a shock if there is less than expected interest in > even trying out trial versions of future versions of Protel, which could > well come about if the versions of Windows being used by would-be evaluators > at such times are not up to muster for running such trial versions. > > Onwards through the fog... > > Regards, > Geoff Harland. > ----------------------------- > E-Mail Disclaimer > The Information in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally > privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this > e-mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended > recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken > or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be > unlawful. Any opinions or advice contained in this e-mail are > confidential and not for public display. > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
