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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: no PALASM90 on workstations
Message-ID: <1990Aug7.040411.28660@amd.com>
Date: 7 Aug 90 04:04:11 GMT
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In article <1990Aug6.153729.6462@funet.fi>
jja@etana.tut.fi (Ahola Jari) writes:
|Why couldn't AMD just place the software in PD as it was originally- someone
|would port it to for instance Suns and there we have a PALASM for workstations.

I don't speak for AMD but I suspect there is concern that the source
might be used by other PAL makers to improve their product.

|(yeah, I used the first FORTRAN PALASM ;-)

So did I. On a VAX running BSD.

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