15 Apr
2002
15 Apr
'02
9:43 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
However, there's also a difference between
'not suporting' and
'preventing others from supporting'. I don't expect Philips or Intel to
sell me an 8051 cross-assembler for linux (or for RT11, or...). But I can
take the published datasheets and write an assembler. The information is
there (opcode map, etc). But in the case of PLDs not only will the
manufacturers not sell me software for my choice of OS (reasonable), they
also won't provide the information to let me (or others) write that software.
I may go back to TTL ( but not sure yet ) because too the only
programing platform is windows ver ??? and 5 years down the road when I
want to do a upgrade, the software to program my computer is 1) not
around 2) will not run on my machine 3) require 1253 meg of crap to run,
4) will need a new license.
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Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
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