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From: geoff@hls0.hls.oz (Geoff Bull)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi,comp.lsi.cad,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: no PALASM90 on workstations
Message-ID: <845@hls0.hls.oz>
Date: 10 Aug 90 00:32:17 GMT
References: <970@ssc.UUCP> <1990Aug6.153729.6462@funet.fi> <1990Aug7.040411.28660@amd.com>
Reply-To: geoff@hls0.highland.oz.au (Geoff Bull)
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In article <1990Aug7.040411.28660@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>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.

Balls!

I don't speak for my company, but I would volunteer to do some
of the port. Maybe we should organise a GNU PALASM!

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