From: ggm@algebras.org (George Michaelson)
Subject: [TUHS] Conceivably OT: 80s and 90s era CAD software
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:33:23 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKr6gn2MNYqLNjDhu-y9K8kNxBQ3x=2k=u_EN6dHeNSQEwzXYQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1710230735560.30357@aneurin.horsfall.org>
possibly the last s/w package I saw which had the regents official
stamp logo in the corner, was the BSD tape of magic/spice. I found it
sort-of pleasing that a s/w suite designed to help make chips, was
being distributed with the same licence (US legal paper, that font..)
as the one used to ship the software used to design and make the
software used to design and make the hardware used to ...
Oh NO! Pooh, thats not honey, thats RECURSION!!!!
On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 6:38 AM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Wesley Parish wrote:
>
> [ Eagle CAD ]
>
>> Might be worth asking them if they have any objection to having their 80s
>> and 90s releases preserved in the likes of TUHS. It would've been built on a
>> BSD-based Unix, I take it?
>
>
> Our clients used it on old Suns (Sun-2, as I recall), so yeah, BSD (before
> they got infected with SysVile).
>
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
> suffer."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-22 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-21 9:11 Wesley Parish
2017-10-21 17:11 ` [TUHS] Conceivably OT: 80s and 90s era CAD software: CADroid Don Hopkins
2017-10-21 17:26 ` Clem cole
2017-10-23 1:13 ` Dan Cross
2017-10-22 0:06 ` [TUHS] Conceivably OT: 80s and 90s era CAD software Dave Horsfall
2017-10-22 7:53 ` Wesley Parish
2017-10-22 17:46 ` Clem Cole
2017-10-22 20:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-22 22:33 ` George Michaelson [this message]
2017-10-23 7:06 ` Clem cole
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