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>Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 15:38:49 -0800
>To: [email protected] (Bret Goodrich)
>From: Alan K Biocca <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: CapFast follies
>
>CAD Vendors we have talked to have indicated that their market is moving
toward Windows-NT and away from Unix. At least some of them do not plan to
support unix platforms much longer, perhaps most - I haven't taken a tally.
The cost of the CAD packages on Unix is also too high for EPICS use.
Perhaps EPICS should support a reasonable PC Cad program, and a no-cost
Unix program. I haven't looked, are there any decent Unix public domain
type CAD packages that are suitable???
>
>Alan K Biocca
>
>At 02:38 PM 2/13/97 -0700, you wrote:
>>Peregrine...
>>
>>>So... is there any interest in the consortium for the creation of an
>>>EPICS "parts list" suitable for OrCAD?
>>
>>I, for one, am interested in schematic capture packages for EPICS.
>>However, I'd like to find one that runs on both PCs and Unix.  OrCAD
>>doesn't do this, P-CAD does.
>>
>>bret
>>
>>

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