FPGA VAX update

[9000 VAX]

On 10/26/05, Michael Sokolov <msokolov at ivan.harhan.org> wrote:
> woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
>
> > From what I remember of  Altera  software , it brands  itself  to the
> > HD id or the network ID.
>
> I don't see how they can successfully do this under Linux, or any kind
> of UNIX.  I guess they could try, but this "protection" would be
> laughable - a baby can get around this kind of "copyprotection".  It
> ain't DOS or Winblows, it's Linux!  I can intercept all system calls it
> makes, I can hack the kernel, I can do whatever I want to make it
> believe it's running on the machine it's "licensed" to.

Altera supplies free "web" edition of its quartus II software too. I
am using that and I think it is as good as the linux one.

vax, 9000

>
> > Also I think you also may be stuck
> > with the GUI they use too.
>
> No, all the work is done by command line tools which the GUI calls, and
> the command line tools are documented.  I'll use them as a backend for
> Icarus Verilog.
>
> MS
>