Re: Protel or ORcad?

> As I said, compare equal product levels. Do you want to
> compare 100 pin limit packages as well?

Even if you take the unlimited pins model it's still lower priced than
Protel.
>
> If Pulsonix get it right consistently, where is their user
> base? I have never met one person that uses it. Never heard of
> any professionals even considering it, just hobbyists and one man
> shops through the newsgroups. Actually , just you and a handful
> of others, some suspect of actually being Pulsonix employees.

Pulsonix is quite a new product. It was only released a few years
ago, so it's not surprising you haven't encountered many users.
Protel started what, 25 years ago....? Pulsonix have quite a large
user-base in the US so I believe. I've spoke to several other users.
Nothing like the user-base of Protel I agree. I may be wrong but I
haven't heard of any hobbyists shelling $7K. They are usually use the
free versions or open source stuff.

> As for the router, never seen one yet that works
> satisfactorily for less than $10K - $20K USD ( I remember when
> that was $30K or greater not all too long ago). At that you also
> have to take a course (about $5K US) just to really learn how to
> operate it. But it's the same sad story with all seran wrapped
> routers, as I said you just can't expect much out of any of them.

You're talking past-tense here Brad. This sounds like SPECCTRA speak.
The Pulsonix router might not be quite on par with SPECCTRA but it's
pretty close.

> I never said that Altium always gets it right, I gave them an
> honest assessment that right now they seem to be working
> diligently to cleanup DXP. It hasn't always been the case as I
> suggested.
> --

There's no justifiable excuse why a multi million dollar operation
can't release reliable software, and a usable router. Not guaranteed
bug-free of course 'cos nobody can do that. As can be seen by other
messages, the basic rule of thumb: "don't touch any Protel release
until service pack 5".......! How can you defend that..?

Prescott
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