Lomax what you seem to be insinuating here is that Orcad devotees are as brainwashed as PADS and AutoCad devotees!!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Abd ul-Rahman Lomax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 6:41 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] OrCad to Protel > At 05:40 AM 6/20/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Strange this, I am going in exactly the opposite direction. I used Orcad > >for 8 yrs until my present job introduced me to Protel. > > Is it surprising that Mr. Gillatt hated Protel? He expected it to work like > OrCAD. It doesn't. For someone coming from elsewhere, the Protel interface > is probably, by a long shot, more intuitive and easier to learn. That was > my experience, and I did learn OrCAD -- a bit -- before touching Protel. > But once you have been brainwashed, once you have been drilled in all the > counterintuitive ways to get things done in OrCAD, Protel will seem strange > indeed. In another post, Mr. Gillatt showed that he was unaware of Protel's > spreadsheet functionality. That's because Protel's spreadsheet is an > option, not a requirement as in OrCAD Layout. You can design boards for a > long time without even knowing about the spreadsheet access to the > database. You could not get through day 1 in OrCAD Layout, as I recall. > > Mr. Gillatt reported seriously buggy behavior for Protel. Suffice it to say > that many heavy Protel users (of 99SE or, I assume, DXP) see very, very few > serious bugs. A serious bug causes a crash and/or loss of data or harmfully > defective output. A minor bug is an annoyance only, Protel is not free of > those, but, then again, neither is any CAD program, certainly not OrCAD. > > When users have taken the trouble to track down serious bugs, they have > mostly involved hardware issues. Yes, even if everything else seems to be > working fine, a problem with Protel can still be a hardware issue, often > involving graphics boards, ATI being notorious. > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
