At 10:53 AM 6/27/2003 -0400, Bagotronix Tech Support wrote: >For what it's worth (not much?), I think OrCad SDT III for DOS was great.
SDT and PCB were far more productive for me, than capture and layout are. >It was fast, nearly bug-free, and easy to use. And well documented, with >the documentation supplied you could even write your own video driver or >plotter driver if you had some oddball non-supported equipment. You could >export and import ASCII files for everything. It also supported netlist >outputs in many formats (Futurenet, EDIF, etc.). It could also plot to DXF >files for use in other CAD packages. I remember doing this because at the >place I worked at the time, we didn't have a (working) plotter for the PCs. >Instead, we plotted to DXF and handed the 5.25 inch floppy to the mechanical >guys to plot on their overpriced Intergraph workstations. Using the >dos2unix utility to do so, we got great plots from their electrostatic >plotter. I still have the full suite, of the last DOS products. I use them anywhere I don't have really complicated PCB geometries to deal with. Capture and layout, OTOH, I consider to be one of the worst investments I've ever made. >OrCad SDT III ran great on an 8 MHz 286 with 640K of RAM. I once autorouted a board on a toshiba laptop like that, with two floppies, while driving from LA to Vancouver. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
