Requirements probably stems from Altium's piss-poor approximations in the past, (W98 and 64M of RAM???) so they went overboard to compensate for a lack of engineering skill. It's a typical method for the business class when they take control of technikull thingies.
(tongue-in-cheek mode off) >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darcy Davis >Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 12:14 PM >To: PEDA (E-mail) >Subject: RE: [PEDA] AD and 99SE on the same system. > >Hey Guys, > >Thanks for all the replies on AD and 99SE. I've now got an >evaluation license of AD running and I'm fairly impressed with >some of the feature improvements. I can't say I'm looking >forward to the learning curve though. > >So far, AD seems to run on my desktop (P3 2.6G, 1G Ram) fairly well. >However, the minimum system requirements seem pretty stiff and >the recommended system requirements are almost ridiculous. >IME, you usually need better-than-recommended resources to get >good performance. Does anybody have a feel for whether this is >the case with AD? Or will the minimum system requirements give >us acceptable performance? If we have to upgrade several >machines, the cost of upgrade is obviously higher than >initially thought. We only do schematic capture, pcb layout, >and some 3D mechanical stuff, so we're not using some of the >obviously resource intensive functionality like circuit simulation. > >Again, your knowledge and experience is appreciated. > >Darcy > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Darren >Sent: June 17, 2005 6:56 PM >To: 'Protel EDA Discussion List' >Subject: RE: [PEDA] AD and 99SE on the same system. > > > >Hi Darcy, > >As others have said, no problem, I have had 2.8, 99SE, DXP2004 >SP2 and AD SP3 all running fine. I don't share the designs >files as a rule, I have a separate image of my files for each version. > >Darren Moore > > > >> Hey Guys, >> >> For those of you who have used Altium Designer and >Protel99SE....Will >> these two programs play nicely together on the same computer? We >> definitly need access to the 99SE software to support legacy >designs. >> However, we're looking into Altium Designer. As most of you >are aware, >> altium keeps threatening that the upgrade path is going to disappear. >> However, if we're >> going to purchase new seats instead, than I don't care about the >> upgrade path. >> >> Darcy > > > >____________________________________________________________ >You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > >To Post messages: >mailto:[email protected] > >Unsubscribe and Other Options: >http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > >Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > >Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > >____________________________________________________________ >You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > >To Post messages: >mailto:[email protected] > >Unsubscribe and Other Options: >http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > >Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > >Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > This e-mail transmission and its attachments may contain information from Avtron Manufacturing, Inc. that is proprietary, privileged and/or confidential and is intended exclusively for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. Any use, copying, retention or disclosure by any person other than the intended recipient or the intended recipient's designees is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
