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On 1/31/18 12:25 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: Drawing http://www.scaruffi.com/svhistory/sil9.html Electronic Design Automation The S-1 project to build a supercomputer was started by the astrophysicist Lowell Wood at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in 1975, first ran a program in 1978 and continued until 1988. Two Stanford students, Tom McWilliams and Curt Widdoes, were recruited to develop SCALD (Structured Computer-Aided Logic Design), an influential language to design computers, written in Pascal on DEC's PDP10 SCALD was based on the Stanford University Drawing System (SUDS) developed at Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) first by Phil Petit in 1969 on the PDP10 in assembly language) and later by Richard Helliwell. Petit moved to DEC and used SUDS to design the DEC KL-10 of 1973. Therefore SUDS became the first Computer Aided Design (CAD) system used to design an actual computer. Later Bechtolsheim used SUDS to design the SUN boards at SAIL. SCALD jumpstarted a whole new field, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) for electrical engineering and electronics. Tom McWilliams and Curt Widdoes started a company, initially called SCALD Corporation and later Valid Logic Systems, in 1981 in San Jose to sell SCALD on a proprietary UNIX workstation. At the same time, also in 1981 but in Mountain View, Aryeh Finegold and David Stamm used the public-domain source code for SCALD to found Daisy Systems, that also required a specialized workstation running its own Unix-like operating system. Several notable Silicon Valley founders (e.g. Vinod Khosla, Harvey Jones, Don Smith, Tony Zingale, Mike Schuh, George Haber, Dave Millman and Rick Carlson) started out at Daisy Systems. The third pioneer of EDA was Mentor Graphics, founded in 1981 in Oregon by Tektronix engineers (Tom Bruggere, Gerry Langeler and Dave Moffenbeier) and the only one that didn't require specialized hardware (it ran on regular Unix workstations). "released into the public domain in 1978." BFD. No one has a copy today.