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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: no PALASM90 on workstations
Message-ID: <1990Aug12.054143.26105@amd.com>
Date: 12 Aug 90 05:41:43 GMT
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In article <378@cmic.UUCP> garvey@cmic.UUCP (Joe Garvey) writes:
|If elm, news, perl, etc can work on almost every machine, why can't AMD
|use the users to support PALASM.  There are folks like myself that have
|a long standing interest in PALASM, that HAVE patched/maintained it, if
|AMD co-ordinated, PALASM could have a life of its own. One engineer,
|part time... no serious $$ involved.

I don't speak for AMD but I think that what they are trying to do is
provide a high quality product at a very low cost. There is a lot
of QA and support involved. They don't seem to feel they can do this
for more than one platform.

If you are so interested in a workstation version that you are willing
to pay what it costs, go to your salesman with a big bag of cash
and see if he's interested.

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