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16 years ago

Windows 7

Does anyone know if Altera has mentioned anything about running Quartus under Windows 7? I have the RC installed, so I'm planning on giving it a try - but I pre-ordered the home version instead of th...
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16 years ago

I'm not shilling for MS, but Win7 is significantly faster on my system than Vista. I tried Vista for a couple of months, but every time I tried to do real work, the system either got in my way, or crashed. I finally dropped back to XP. So far, the Win7 RC has been fairly stable, and fairly quick. It's still not as fast as XP on this machine, but I know eventually XP will "die" in terms of support.