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From: marks@mgse.UUCP (Mark Seiffert)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: JDR Microdevices Programmer
Summary: CUPL & April Fools day at JDR
Message-ID: <1104@mgse.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 90 02:07:20 GMT
References: <19387@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
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In article <19387@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, rainer@hibachi.colorado.edu (Rainer Malzbender) writes:
> I am about to pick up the phone and order the universal programmer
> from JDR, priced at $500. It does PAL's, EPROM's, etc. and also tests
> some IC's. The price seems right, even though other machines might
> handle more chips. Please email at once and stop me if you have had
> bad experience with the unit. 

It seems like a nice unit, I have it in a PC/AT and when I run Xenix,
Xenix turns it on somehow. The first time I found out about this, it
had been on all nite and was quite hot.

> 
> Oh yeah, can someone tell me how to get CUPL? Is it public domain ?
> JDR sells a $100 mini-version, but I'd like the real thing.

It is a joke, i supports just those devices listed in the catalog, 
it does not support 22V10 or GALs. In the manual it lists quite a
few chips (hundreds?), but the software does not support them with
the library shipped with CUPL. I called the company, if you want
the full library, it will only cost $1500. I have also had a hard
time getting the simulation's to run correctly, I must be doing
something wrong, but have not figured it out yet.

Has anyone tried PALASM? I called AMD and they said they would send it,
but it still has not arrived. Since it is free i can't complain, but i
wonder how long they take to ship stuff. 

Does anyone know of a PAL software package that works under SCO Xenix
286. I would love to be able to design and simulate a PAL under Xenix
before I have to boot DOS and run the pal burner since other people
are usually on the machine.

> 
> My hand is reaching for the phone .....

If you want to get the library let me know and i will get the phone
number.

> --
> Rainer M. Malzbender        rainer@hibachi.colorado.edu        (303)492-6829
> Dept. of Physics            malzbender@opus.vaxf.colorado.edu
> U. of Colorado, Boulder     "You are in a maze of little twisty passages."


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