On 06/21/2014 11:30 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
I'm curious about what sort of software might have
been used during the 1980s on VAX-11/7xx series machines to support design and/or
production of electronic hardware.
Not sure if this is exactly what you meant, but SPICE (Simulation
Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) springs to mind.
See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE - should be some links to more
packages from roughly the right era if you dig around.
--S.