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From: jja@etana.tut.fi (Ahola Jari)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi,comp.lsi.cad,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: no PALASM90 on workstations
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Date: 6 Aug 90 15:37:29 GMT
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From article <970@ssc.UUCP>, by markz@ssc.UUCP (Mark Zenier):
> 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


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.

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

-jja
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