Home written editors (was Re: Where to buy a Selectric?)

[Philip Pemberton]

In message <43B832B6.4000700 at jetnet.ab.ca>
          woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:

> I did always like vector displays but they I suspect will be rare in the 
> future
> as you have no large display devices anymore.

Which is why I built an X/Y display out of a DG7/32. That's going to be
pretty interesting to play with... I suspect the graphics are going to be
"just a bit" small...
Ah, well, it's still a fun project :)

> I am having fun with the 84 plcc chips I am using -- the free PCB 
> program has no
> 84 pin plcc socket footprints so I hope I get the homebrew footprint right.

Yikes.. What PCB software are you using?

> PS. I am using win-cupl so I can understand the logic expressions.
> I could shoot the designers of vhdl and verlog -- I just can read that 
> at all

Verilog isn't too hard if you already know C. VHDL is Pure Evil (tm)...

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