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- From: dichter@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Carl Dichter)
- Subject: Re: SPICE ftp site?
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:13:46 GMT
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- From the FAQ:
- Berkeley Spice this is no longer freely distributable. (This includes
- even old versions of spice3.) Documentation is available on
- ic.berkeley.edu. General information is available from
- "spice@berkeley.edu". For more information on how to acquire Spice,
- please send your physical mailing address to "cindy@janus.berkeley.edu"
- and request a software catalog. This will give you all of the necessary
- information for ordering Spice3e2 and other Berkeley CAD software,
- including an order form and use agreements. At last check, the cost for
- spice3e2 was $250.00 (this price may change without notice).
-
- Spice3e2 has been compiled on the following systems:
- DECstation/VAXstation/VAX Ultrix 4.x X11r4
- Sun3/Sun4 SunOS 4.x X11r4
- IBM RS/6000 AIX V3 X11r3
- SGI Personal Iris Irix 3.2
- Sequent Symmetry or Balance Dynix 3.0 X11r4
- HP 9000/300 HP-UX 7.0
- NextStation Next 2.0
- IBM PC (or compatible) MS-DOS 3.x/Microsoft C 5.1 or later
-
-
- Spice3e2 is distributed in source form only. The C compiler "gcc" has
- been used successfully to compile spice3e2, as well as the standard com-
- pilers for the systems listed above. Note the the X11 interface to
- Spice3 requires the "Athena Widgets Toolkit" ("Xaw") which may be avail-
- able only in the "unsupported" portion of your vendor software. Spice3
- displays graphs under X11, PostScript, or a graphics-terminal independent
- library, or as a crude, spice2-like line-printer plot. On the IBM PC,
- CGA, EGA, and VGA displays are supported through the MicroSoft graphics
- library. Note in particular that there is no Suntools interface.
-
- Note that for practical performance a math co-processor is required for
- an IBM PC based on the 286 processor. A math co-processor is also recom-
- mended for the more advanced IBM PC systems.
-
- The Unix distribution comes on 1/2" 9-track tape in "tar" format. The
- MS-DOS distribution comes on several 3.5" floppy diskettes (both high and
- low density) in the standard MS-DOS format. The contents of both distri-
- butions are identical, including file names.
-
- Spice versions are numbered "NXM", where "N" is a number representing the
- major release (as in re-write), "X" is a letter representing a feature
- change reflected by a change in the documentation, and "M" is a number
- indicating a minor revision or bug-patch number.
-
- We anticipate that FUTURE distributions will also come on QIC-150 1/4"
- (a.k.a. "Sun cartridge tape" high density or 150MB 1/4" tape), and a
- compressed tar files on two 3.5" diskettes for Sun or VAX systems with
- (a.k.a. "Sun cartridge tape" high density or 150MB 1/4" tape), and a
- compressed tar files on two 3.5" diskettes for Sun or VAX systems with
- 3.5" drives. * Note that these future formats are anticipated but not
- guaranteed and do NOT apply for Spice3e2 *.
-
- There is no anonymous ftp access for the Spice3 source. The manual for
- spice3e2 (in it's troff/me format or postscript format) is available via
- anonymous ftp from "ic.berkeley.edu" in the directory "pub/spice3".
- Patches or upgrades for Spice3 are _not_ normally supplied, however we
- have made exceptions to this rule.
-
- Beorn Johnson
- Spice maintenance
- UC Berkeley, EECS/ERL/CAD Group
- (beorn@ic.berkeley.edu)
-
-
- Please direct inquiries to "spice@berkeley.edu" or "spice-
- bugs@berkeley.edu"
-
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- Carl R. Dichter "iwannanugui"
- Motorola ASIC Division
- email: dichter@chdasic.sps.mot.com
-