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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi,comp.lsi.cad,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: no PALASM90 on workstations
Keywords: PAL PALASM AMD
Message-ID: <1990Aug5.070528.4522@amd.com>
Date: 5 Aug 90 07:05:28 GMT
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In article <833@hls0.hls.oz> geoff@hls0.hls.oz (Geoff Bull) writes:
|AMD have dropped plans to supply PALASM90 for Suns and Apollos.

I don't speak for AMD, in fact, I'm not even working for them right
now, but I couldn't resist:

PALASM90 for Suns? Which Suns? Sun-3? Sun-386i? Sparc? Which OS of
the week? (when we upgraded the OS, it broke "less".) Which window
system? Suntools? Sunview? X? News? Now take all these choices and
multiply them together. Sun-3 with X. Sun-3 with News. Sun-3 with
Sunview. Sparc with X. Sparc with News. Sparc with Sunview. etc.

I won't even talk about Apollo/Aegis/DomainUx/USG/BSD...

I suggest you buy a nice cheap and fast PC, get PC-NFS for networking
and MKS toolkit to make the command set somewhat like Unix. You
might even find you have a nice word processor in the bargain.

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