[rescue] [OT] S: IBM /370 or /390 card

[Dave McGuire]

On 9/17/23 10:16, Mouse via rescue wrote:
>>> Not that I'm thrilled by the FPGA world either, but that's a lower
>>> level of distaste (it's "just" closed source, not actively crippling
>>> what end users can do with devices they own).
>> There are open toolchains for some FPGA families now.
> 
> As good as that is, I was under the impression that all of those were
> reverse-engineered rather than actually being written to real
> documentation.  Closed hardware documentation still tickles the same
> reactions in me that closed source does (albeit somewhat differently).

   Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that one can make working 
hardware without huge, awful closed-source chip-vendor software.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA