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From: R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: Spice for the ATARI...where is it?
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Date: 16 Feb 91 14:56:40 GMT
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	marshall@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Marshall Harris) asks...

>For the benefit of us ignoramuses (ignorami?) - what IS Spice?

SPICE = Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis

It is an electronic circuit simulation program. You supply the "netlist"
and component parameters and it can calculate voltages/currents/waveforms/
power and many other behaviorial parameters of that circuit.

Very useful when you can't "breadboard" the circuit for some reason, or
if you want to test the circuit under conditions that might damage real
components. Also much easier to examine simulated waveform graphs than
to try to get the waveform on a scope (especially for transients)

                                        R. Tim Coslet

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