21 Feb
2018
21 Feb
'18
6:14 p.m.
On Feb 21, 2018, at 3:52 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
We had a lot of ZyCAD stuff at ETA because we just had to drive a couple miles up the road
to get it ;-) Lots of the ETA brass were buddies with the ZyCAD brass because they all
came from ADL.
We used it to simulate the ALSI 20K gate arrays before they were built. The gear we had
was usually plugged into some Apollo headless nodes, which I think were Multibus
backplanes?? and then accessed over the Domain network.
Chris
On 02/21/2018 12:28 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk
wrote:
That actually just came up for discussion in a donation review meeting this week at
CHM.
I don't know if they're that interesting w/o the software and documentation, and
even
then, these things were all locked down with licenses, except for the really early ones
like Daisy and Valid.
> On 2/21/18 11:37 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>
> Speaking of emulation, does anyone here collect old ZyCAD or Cadence
> hardware emulation rigs?
Definitely lots of proprietary stuff. I had a couple of friends who
worked for ZyCAD back in the day. I got the impression that they were
only exposed to a piece of the puzzle.
Also, expensive as hell.
--Chuck