?? Many Linux users dual-boot with Windows for the few Windows programs? without Linux equivalents (Intuit, I'm talking to you). Maybe someone who's locked into XP could try dual-booting with Linux to run LTspice and let us know how it goes.
?? Craig
On Aug 7, 2016 5:23 PM, "Richard Damon
richard@... [LTspice]" <
LTspice@...> wrote:
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On 8/7/16 4:56 PM, ricksbmw@... [LTspice] wrote:
>
> It would seem reasonable for Mike to provide a short explanation of
> the technical reasons for not providing compatibility with XP (would
> it have been that costly?).
>
> A significant part of the world still runs XP because the economics of
> replacing perfectly good hardware with something that will support
> 7,8, or 10. It is not a trivial expense for a good part of the world,
> and detractors don't seem to understand that.
>
> Rick
>
While I can't speak for Mike, I can say that often such restrictions are
based on the tools used to build the program. Since XP is (past) EOL,
many tools don't support generating new programs for it. Since
LTSpiceVII is avail for 64 bits, it likely is using a newer tool than
LTSpiceIV, and that might not support XP.
--
Richard Damon
