32-Bit Microcontroller for New Project

***NOT TOO BAD*** ???? I've been running Win2k for some 6 years now and I would rather fight than switch! In fact, I was all ready to buy a new laptop with XP on it and Dell told me that I had one day left to order it before they *forced* me to buy Vista or pay an extra $100 to get the "dual" configuration. So I'm still banging on my 6 year old keyboard (MS natural, btw, even MS gets something right once in awhile).

I never had a problem with DOS. In fact for some things I wouldn't mind going back to it. Of course it has little or *no* protection from errant apps, but IMHO the biggest flaw was the memory handling. But that is, what, some 15 years ago???

Rick

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I used to boot the NT 3.51 after the Christmas, Eastern and summer holidays, not because the OS required it, but I did not want the hardware run unattended for days or weeks.

W2k/XP needs a reboot at least once a month. For some strange reason if you open a few dozen of windows in an application (such as IE, Firefox, Acrobat etc.) and then close all windows, the memory is not properly released, when some other application _actually_ needs the memory.

It is of course a good OS design to keep the pages for terminated programs in memory, if the program is restarted again, but if the pages are not released, when some other program needs them, this is simply bad OS design.

The other problem with NT4/W2k/XP/Vista is that you can not use it in a hostile environment (such as connected to the internet) without frequent reboots due to security updates.

Paul

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I thought that that was an old known problem for all versions of windows.

You can if you connect via a NAT router, and disallow all incomming connections. AND you are very careful what applications you run.

My primary outside system is W98, original version, and I have never had any kind of infection in over the 10 years I have been using it. But, then, I am quite careful of where I go on the web. And I do have a virus scanner. And I don't use IE or any version of Lookout, both of which are/were known to do security type things wrong by default.

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However that's not what happens with XP. Little though I like Windows, your assertions are pure FUD and lies. I have built kernel-level tools that snapshot the page tables of all running processes, and analyze the memory usage, and what you're suggesting simply doesn't happen. I can provide the programs for you to verify this yourself, if you should happen one day to care more about the truth than bashing Windows.

Clifford Heath.

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This study was made by a customer using Eclipse. The study was not using AVR32 Studio. Also, the 1-2 GB requirement is for the PC I did not mean that Eclipse uses an extra GB or two.

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