Lpc2000

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From: "Onestone" <onestone@...>
To: <lpc2000@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: [lpc2000] Re: ANN: New version of Pulsonix PCB software


> To me its very much a cost issue. Eagle seems solid and competent. When
> I trialled 3V? a few years ago it seemed at least as good as protel on
> general usage, but not so good on library issues, i would have preferred
> it to Protel, but my then client/employer/partner (he was first a
> client, then apartner, then I worked for him)  insisted on Protel as
> they had used it in house for a while. Now it seems when you compare
> $800 vs $10,000 for protel or Pulsonix, they would have to be better by
> a country mile for me to justify spending the money on them, and,
> frankly I can't see it from here. 50% more mouse clicks has got to be
> better when used productively than when trying to find a match in
> Protels useless help system. I don't know about pulsonix, having never
> used it, but the price seems far too high for comparative functionality,
> ie  Pulsonix would have to have an awful lot more than fewer mouse
> clicks, a better librarian and some novel autoroute procedures (I don't
> autoroute anyway) to justify the price difference.
>
> And referring to another thread, I don't think, in fact I know for sure
> that, in this business, you definitely don't get what you pay for, so
> price is not really a good measure of quality.

EasyPC is comparable to Eagle in price, and has many of the features of 
Pulsonix:

http://www.numberone.com

I used it for 20 years. It's just been updated to V9.

Leon 

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