21 Apr
2002
21 Apr
'02
4:47 a.m.
Richard Erlacher wrote:
You can get the same software for UNIX, if you don't mind the $250K pricetag.
You won't get the source code there, either, of course, but I doubt you'd
expend 200 man-years developing a piece of software at your expense and then
give away the source code. If you did, your shareholders would tar and
feather you.
That is not what I asking for. One I developed a design (using undefined
software) I don't want have a $2,000 computer running windows 2022 to
re-program my chips from a printer port that developed in 2002 as the
chips only have a 20 year life span, from data files that have been
sitting on a floppy for years.
People like the software for FPGA's and CPLD's
because it's either free or
under $100 US.
It is getting a FPGA programmed that is the problem. I found this out
the hard way, as they don't make under $500 programers for the serial
FPGA proms and very few people even publish a J-TAG interface for a
printer port for the stuff that can be programed that way.
There are so many high-quality 805x compilers that
are
"freeware" or "shareware" that I can't see any reason one would
want one of
the $2000 types, unless he was convinced he could make his work easier by
spending that money. If people would keep after the producers of the
purportedly faulty software, it would get fixed. Vendors of shoddy software
rely on the fact that people buy their products under the mistaken notion that
it will do their work for them, knowing that, when the end-user finds out it's
not so, he'll be too embarassed to complain that the product doesn't work any
better than the comparable freeware product.
Funny what ever happened to assembler programing???
I know, I know ... managment never tells a programer what to program
until a week after it needed in the field.
There is a demo version of nearly every high-cost
($2000 isn't that high, btw,
though the Windows environment has made it so.) Get a comparable product for
UNIX, and you'll get no improvement, nor will you get source. All you'll get
is a bigger bill.
LINUX != UNIX. ( But you are right )
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Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
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