Proprietary black box software - Re: on FPGA simulation

I know. I went through my larval phase under VMS, back in the '80s, when DEC was still DEC. I - well, formally, the lab I hung out at - must have generated at least a half-dozen SPRs (then-DEC's name for bug reports). The only one I ever saw any response at all to was the one that was a total brainfart of my own. Even that doesn't always help. I once worked on a robotics project that involved JPL and some Sun hardware. JPL bought the right to internal support from Sun, as in, we could call and talk to one of their internal techs. We tried it. More than once (I don't recall exactly how often). Every time, we already knew more about the thing we were asking about than the tech we spoke with did. And this was the special spend-oodles-of-money level of support. I am very thoroughly cynical about proprietary vendor "support". /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B