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From: kagenski@apollo.uucp (Joe Kagenski)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi
Subject: Re: Logic simulator survey as of April 21, 1988.
Message-ID: <3bcfa37f.56ee@apollo.uucp>
Date: 2 May 88 14:00:00 GMT
References: <8804262107.AA21386@venera.isi.edu> <1988Apr28.110007.1246@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Reply-To: kagenski@apollo.UUCP (Joe Kagenski)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <1988Apr28.110007.1246@mntgfx.mentor.com> archiel@mntgfx.mentor.com (Archie Lachner) writes:
>I wonder how many of the electronic workstations out there are hooked up to the
>net, and how many of the users of same read net news, this group, and
>participated in the survey....
>All this is to point out that the statistical sample
>contained in this survey is probably not very representative of logic-simulator
>use in general.
>-- 
>Archie Lachner

Agree, looking back at when I was an Aps Engr for Tektronix, not many of
the people/organizations that I talked with outside of academia and govt 
had access to this media.  Many of the same companies were 'on the air',
but most of the folks in design areas did not have access to it, for 
whatever reason, only s/w folks made use of it.  The numbers have increased
some but not much.  There are a lot of H/W designers (definitely not the
case with my current employer) that still shy away from using workstations 
for more than schematic entry and simulation.

Additional comment, Any and all info is good, but it needs to be qualified.
That survey should have been accompanied by a simple list of respondents 
to give some additional validity, especially since the sample size was so low.


Disclaimer:  My opinions no one else's!!

joek
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