Scumbria,
RE: I am just blabbering mindlessly. Sorry to waste your time.
I already knew that. <ggg>
I am trying to hide my very strong UNIX bias and be OS agnostic and accept NT for CAD tools and design work. I have already gotten past the "it's not like UNIX" syndrome, a.k.a UNIX does this or that. It's not UNIX, never will be, so assuming we must follow an NT application development paradigm, I really want to know about "real" problems. Not comparisons of UNIX vs NT.
For example, how do I have more than one version of a CAD tool installed on a single NT machine. Being customer driven you sometimes must supply libraries in a particular version of ModelSimEE, that can be done from UNIX with any version of ModelSim in any Xterm, under NT I can only have one version of ModelSim installed. So I guess I would need one NT box for each version, that would be about 15 boxes to handle models from:
4.6i
4_6b
4_6d
4_6h
5.1b
5.1c
5.1d
5.1e
5.1f
5.1g
5.1h
5.2
5.2a
5.2b
5.2c
5.3
Or I would need to create a really complicated method of swapping dll's , registery keys, etc to enable any version on a single NT box. Some vendors do have true network installs, but most don't.
Do you have any "real" examples why NT isn't succeeding in Digital Design as you asserted? |
