FPGA VAX update

[Cameron Kaiser]

> Well, it's no longer a concern for me.  I don't give a damn about Xilinx
> any more.  I've just got the CD with Altera's Quartus for Linux and it's
> all normal tarballs, which I have unpacked just fine manually without
> using any installer.  Then after giving it a bootleg license file I've
> got the command line tools working.
> 
> So, reiterating for those who haven't caught the gist - I now have
> working command line tools under Linux (no Winblows, no GUI, no X display
> needed) for compiling Altera FPGAs.  I start with Verilog sources and
> get an SOF (SRAM object file) for the FPGA, all command line controlled
> by a Makefile, just like compiling C code with cc under UNIX.  Isn't
> this something to celebrate?

That you, basically, stole the software? Congratulations. You're sticking
it to the man.

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