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Date:      Wed, 19 Jul 1995 10:00:43 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        spaz@u.washington.edu, elh_fbsd@spnet.com, hackers@freebsd.org, elh@spnet.com
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Killer Apps (was Re: TCL vs...)
Message-ID:  <199507190800.KAA12680@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199507190745.RAA08032@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jul 19, 95 05:15:42 pm

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Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> What I'd kill for is an integrated schematic-PCB package, but they're
> no fun to write, and even less fun to support, so I don't hold a lot
> of hope.

Yep. Thought about it once and dismissed that thought very quickly.

> (Has anyone tried to do anything serious with the PCB program
> in the ports collection?  Last time I built it, the resultant program 
> killed my window manager, so I put it away 8) (It appears to be a port of
> an old Atari ST program, and that was _bad_, IIRC)

I built it once but thought it was unusable on my FPU-less 386 with
14" monitor at home, so I still use easyedit (boot DOS from A:, use
the PCB program from B:; there's no DOS on my harddisks.).

tg



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