Re: gEDA-user: futurenet question

[Evan Lavelle <anti.spam1@dsl.pipex.com>]

John Griessen wrote:
> What might be interesting to us on this list,
> is a look at a sample of a futurenet pinlist.  I've never heard of that tool.
Futurenet used to be very common. It was used for ASIC design in the 
late 80's, and was very expensive. It got a lot cheaper through the 
90's, and was eventually sold undongled. I think it was terminated 
around 1996/97.

I used to use it a lot for board-level work, as well as Orcad and PADS. 
It was better than DOS Orcad (though more difficult to use), a lot 
better than Windows Orcad, and infinitely better than PADS. I can dig 
out a netlist if anyone's interested.

Evan