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From: cjl@ecsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Re: PAL programmer
Message-ID: <2506@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-May-84 17:22:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 16 17:22:28 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 17-May-84 04:49:53 EDT
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To summerize my findings re PAL programmers:

I still have not found a working <$1000 programmer available NOW.
Data I/O is the hands-down favorite. With Logic-Pak (includes
PALASM 1.?) around $4-5K; needs dumb terminal for PALASM.
Almost any distributor worth their salt will program PALs
*IF* you buy/bought the parts from them, plus a fee...

What has anyone heard about the new MegaPALs? 32R16s? Talk of
">1500 programmable gates"? Does the new PALASM 2.0 support
the new Megachips?

(Vax and IBM software is always more than micro software. It
costs more to develop and support, even if it is essentially
the same program.)

-Charles J. Lord
 cjl@ecsvax