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From: johne@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (John Eaton)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: no PALASM90 on workstations
Message-ID: <1430019@hpvcfs1.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Aug 90 16:13:03 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA
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< 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.
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That would be nice.

Like it or not the IBM-PC has become the lowest common denominator in the engineering
tools arena. If you want to get your latest tool into the maximum number of machines
then you start with the PC version. The problem is that after you do that then the
number of incremental sales you will generate from expanding into other platforms is
somewhat small. AMD is in the chip business and uses PALASM as a means to sell IC's.
They do not position it to compete with the ABEL's or CUPL's of the world and probably
never will. I perfer to see them use their resources to do a good job maintaining and
upgrading the PC version rather than trying to export it to YA workstation. Let the
folks that do tools for a living worry about niche markets.



John Eaton
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