Andrew,
You completely skip the ACCEL product, not the company but the product.
Accel may have at one time been Tango but at version 15 it wasn't. Version 15
was approx. late 1999 - early 2000 and I was using ACCEL at that time, there
was no Tango. But it would seem that they were still using the Tango name in
the file structure, I never noticed at the time. At version 15 there was ACCEL
and PCAD, no Tango.
ACCEL existed until just after Altium bought ACCEL/PCAD and then all
ACCEL users were upgraded to PCAD or migrated to another package. I believe
versions 15 was the last versions of ACCEL.
Sincerely,
Brad Velander
Senior PCB Designer
Northern Airborne Technology
#14 - 1925 Kirschner Road,
Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4N7.
tel (250) 763-2329 ext. 225
fax (250) 762-3374
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Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 9:57 AM
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Subject: Re: [PEDA] PCAD to Protel 2004
No offense, but it does not tell you that.
It tells you that
A) the company is Accel
B) the product is Tango
Tango is the parent application to PCAD. When Accel bought Omation and
gutted the company and product, they made a new amalgam, using the
technology they got from Omation's Windows product to bolster their
crappy Tango application into the new, improved (and still crappy) PCAD.
(As an aside...in fact, it's still just as crappy as it ever was. I know
because I am stuck using it at my place of work...)
In any case, Tango is not PCAD, it is Tango. That they (Tango and PCAD)
were originally produced by the same company is not tantamount to
content equality, much as it would be silly to call Protel Autotrax
"P99SE"...
The true irony is that PCAD and its parent code are now the sole
property of the one and only... Altium.
aj
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