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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
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Date: 12 Aug 90 05:42:22 GMT
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In article <836@hls0.hls.oz> geoff@hls0.highland.oz.au (Geoff Bull) writes:
|OK, except third parties don't support AMDs newest chips

Perhaps that tells you there is a lot of work in PAL software.

|AMD used to give away source for PALASM; they don't do that
|anymore so they obviously think there's something in it for them!

Or they don't want to give away information to competitors who
make PAL devices.

|Also, they no longer publish the information you need to
|create fuse maps or build a programmer (can't say I would
|want to do the latter!)

That information is available to the right vendors. It is not
generally available unless you are willing to submit to a
certification process.

|Anyway the agents here charged us A$150 for it which presumably covers
|the cost of the media and the manual.

Yup.

|Frankly, if they want to make $$$ out of it we're prepared to 
|pay $500 (say) for a Sun version (but only if the PC version
|is also $500)

I would guess $500 is too low for a Sun version, but why do you
care what the PC version costs? Emotional, irrational jealousy?

(I do not speak for AMD.)
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