I've been using Protel since version 2.8 and am now up to 2004 SP4. Not that I'm a big fan of the way Altium has handled upgrades either but I'm happy with 2004. I've developed several boards with it so far.
2004 has greatly reduced the memory leak problems of previous versions. Not fixed it, but greatly improved it. It doesn't crash near as often as prior versions did. I haven't had a PCB file corrupted yet ( unlike 98 / 99 ). The autorouter is still horrible. But Specctra fixes that. I'm also a licenced Pads user. I prefer Protel. I understand their desire to chase the FPGA arena. I just wish they would put their resources into the PCB product instead. I am happy to have the schematic and PCB libraries for FPGAs but will continue to use other tools for FPGA netlist development. Larry Edington. ____________________________________________________________ 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]
