[rescue] backup software

[Dave McGuire]

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 04:52 PM, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
>>> What do you use for simulations?  That free spice clone?
>>
>>   I use spice; it's free.  I wasn't aware that there were any clones 
>> of
>> spice.  Other simulators, sure, but clones?
>
> I was led to believe (in part to all the free "versions" of spice, and
> in part by the next engineer over) that spice was a commercial system,
> with a free beer version for students (pspice).

   Spice was a Berkeley project.  You could (and still can) download the 
source code for free.  There are commercial spin-offs, just as Illustra 
is a commercialized Postgres, for example.  There are also numerous 
noncommercial spin-offs.

        -Dave

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