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From: rick@ameristar (Rick Spanbauer)
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Subject: Re: no PALASM90 on workstations
Keywords: PAL PALASM AMD
Message-ID: <1990Aug12.121926.4973@ameristar>
Date: 12 Aug 90 12:19:26 GMT
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In article <1990Aug12.054222.26379@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>Or they don't want to give away information to competitors who
>make PAL devices.

	Phil, could you elaborate a bit on the potential proprietary information
	that would be lost by publishing palasm sources?  Is it that perhaps
	AMD knows more about logic minimization than the rest of us do?  :-)
	Or does AMD have some strange technique for loading fuse maps?  Or
	is there general fear that eg Cypress might just hack the palasm source
	such that it would generate maps for their parts?
	
>Phil Ngai, phil@amd.com		{uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil

					Rick Spanbauer
					Ameristar