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From: ejmag@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Eric J. Magnusson)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi.cad
Subject: Re: new newsgroup for the VHDLs
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.162844.18859@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 90 16:28:44 GMT
References: <1990Nov28.225223.12307@hoss.unl.edu> <43655@mips.mips.COM>
Reply-To: ejmag@aplcen (Eric J. Magnusson)
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In article <43655@mips.mips.COM> keith@mips.COM (Keith Garrett) writes:
>In article <1990Nov28.225223.12307@hoss.unl.edu> savel@hoss.unl.edu (Bharat P. Savel) writes:
>>
>>at a time when a call for the votes for the VHDL is being called, it's
>>just a matter of time a newsgroup for the other VHDL-users will be called;
>>(er.... 2 of them exist in the market; same name different companies); to
>>avoid ambiguities in the future, please differentiate the vhdl my their
>>company name; like comp.lang.vhdl(I) for the Intermetrics and (C) for
>>Cadence; took me a minute to find out which newsgroup was being called
>>for; also in future all headings need to mention which VHDL is being
>>discussed;
>
>how about vhdl for the DARPA VHSIC language and vehdl for cadence verilog?
>-- 

Let's not be too exclusive.  I've read that Cadence will be supporting
1076 VHDL soon.  What about Vantage VHDL, ZyCad VHDL (now Synopsys VHDL).
There is also GenRad HDL (GHDL), which isn't compatible with anything.
If Mr. Savel gets his way, maybe we can have the following newsgroups(s):
comp.lang.vhdl.intermetrics
comp.lang.vhdl.cadence.verilog
comp.lang.vhdl.cadence.vhdl
comp.lang.vhdl.darpa
comp.lang.vhdl.vantage
comp.lang.vhdl.zycad
comp.lang.vhdl.synopsys
comp.lang.ghdl.genrad
comp.lang.vhdl.turbovhdl
comp.lang.vhdl.quickvhdl
comp.lang.vhdl.joes_bar_&_grill_vhdl
comp.lang.vhdl.vhdl123
comp.lang.vhdl.VhdlPerfect
 and last but hopefully not least
comp.lang.vhdl.DoD
comp.lang.vhdl.ieee1076

I hope I haven't left anybody out. If so, I'd be glad to add to the 
list! :-)

-Eric Magnusson
ejmag@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu