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From: kad@ttrde.UUCP (Keith Drescher)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PSPICE Demo (Explanation for the curious)
Keywords: Useful, limited
Message-ID: <602@ttrde.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 88 14:43:53 GMT
References: <2622@umd5.umd.edu> <5595@sgistl.SGI.COM>
Reply-To: kad@ttrde.UUCP (Keith Drescher)
Organization: AT&T End User Organization,  Skokie, Ill.
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In article <5595@sgistl.SGI.COM> larry@sgistl.SGI.COM (Larry Autry) writes:
>In article <2622@umd5.umd.edu>, cgs@umd5.umd.edu (Chris Sylvain) writes:
>< 
><           The full product costs about $3000 with all the bells and
>< whistles included, this demo will at least give you a taste for them.
>< 
>< The Demo I posted is actually *USEFUL*, albeit limited. It doesn't just
>< spit pleasant looking graphics at you.
>< 
>< For the casual circuit analysis (you're limited to 10 transistors, so I
>< guess that means a passive circuit of no more than 30-40 nodes -- I haven't
><    UUCP: ..!uunet!umd5.umd.edu!cgs
>
>Ten transistors?  Great! Thats not only useless, but ridiculous.  Please
>dont' post crap like that and expect the entire net to pass it down the
>line.  I never flame anyone, but this posting deserves it. 
>-- 
>					Larry Autry

I have to disagree that this version of PSPICE is useless.  There is a
class of people to whom this would be very useful (I think).  That class
of people is STUDENTS (quite of few of them use this network).  I remember
using spice back when I was an undergrad and 10 transistors would have been
more than enough for the circuits we simulated.  Of course, for REAL
designs, Larry is right, but the Demo would be useful for many of the
"Introduction to transistor circuit analysis and design with computer
applications" type classes that I have seen offered by various universities.
Perhaps the PSPICE people are even targeting this class of people with
their demo, i.e. it will be useful (and free) to a student, and then when
the student gets to the real world, s/he'll be familiar with the product and
convince his/her boss to purchase the full blown thing.  A nice touch.  
The thing is very obviously useless for the practicing professional (I didn't
download it because I don't find demos worth the effort of uudecoding,
downloading, and de-arcing). 

Anyway, perhaps we shouldn't flame things JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE OF NO USE
TO US.  Perhaps someone else on the net would find it useful.
-- 
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