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From: markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi,comp.lsi.cad,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: no PALASM90 on workstations
Keywords: PAL PALASM AMD
Message-ID: <970@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 90 04:41:12 GMT
References: <833@hls0.hls.oz> <1990Aug5.070528.4522@amd.com> <1990Aug5.161336.18508@ameristar>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <1990Aug5.161336.18508@ameristar>, rick@ameristar (Rick Spanbauer) writes:
> 	The truth of software, and I assume
> 	you know this, is that it always entails ongoing investment in 
> 	maintenance, support, and upgrades.  If you guys can't figure this 
> 	out, I would be happy to do it for you for some AMD con$ulting 
> 	dollars :-)  After all, if Lotus Corp was able to make their peace 
> 	with Suns, AMD should too...  FYI, companies with much less 
> 	development bucks than Lotus & AMD are porting from PC -> Sparc,
> 	eg P-CAD, CUPL, Pads-PCB, etc.
                  ^^^^

Hey, if AMD isn't making any $$$ off of their software, and it's just 
a large lump in the customer support budget, they would probably prefer 
that you go to a third party.

markz@ssc.uucp