TTL computing

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue Apr 16 11:43:52 2002

That's your privilege, Ben, but there's nothing to prevent you from preserving
the software/hardware that effectively runs your software. If the software
exists now, it will still exist in 5 years if you don't destroy it. If you
want to run the software later, you do have to retain a machine that runs it,
though. If it doesn't "require 1253 meg of crap to run" today, it won't
require it later either.

What's more, I'd guess that since few vendors are still making much of the TTL
range that was available 20 years ago, it won't be better in 5 years. If you
want to be able to design big circuits in the future, I'd recommend stocking
up on NAND gates, billions of 'em, and lots of wire-wrap wire and sockets.
Perfboard may not be readily available then either.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Franchuk" <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: TTL computing


> Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > However, there's also a difference between 'not suporting' and
> > 'preventing others from supporting'. I don't expect Philips or Intel to
> > sell me an 8051 cross-assembler for linux (or for RT11, or...). But I can
> > take the published datasheets and write an assembler. The information is
> > there (opcode map, etc). But in the case of PLDs not only will the
> > manufacturers not sell me software for my choice of OS (reasonable), they
> > also won't provide the information to let me (or others) write that
software.
> >
> I may go back to TTL ( but not sure yet ) because too the only
> programing platform is windows ver ??? and 5 years down the road when I
> want to do a upgrade, the software to program my computer is 1) not
> around 2) will not run on my machine 3) require 1253 meg of crap to run,
> 4) will need a new license.
>
>
> --
> Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
> www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 16 2002 - 11:43:52 BST