On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 12:43:46 +0530, you wrote:

>>
>> t may not be doable/practical, but I just thought I'd throw this out
>> there.  Before Altium went to 'Altium', there was PCAD. Quite a few peop=
le
>> didn't switch, and still use PCAD.  Altium seems to pretend it never
>> existed.  I don't know how or if you could get a legal license, but it i=
s
>> perfectly usable.  We've done boards over 20 layers with it, 28 in
>> diameter,  blind /buried, ...
>>
>
>Is/was that the same as Protel.
>Clunky, steam driven, works.
>

No - P-CAD started life as Accel, and Altium (then Protel) bought it but ke=
pt the 2 packages running
for a while before abandoning PCAD. It was designed from scratch to use Win=
dows conventions, so has
no baggage inherited from old DOS packages, and is very easy to pick up & u=
se, and most functions
work in a sensible & obvious way.=20
You can't buy it, except possibly "used" but it's not hard to find, but has=
 minimal protection - all
you need is the install package and a serial number :-)
=20

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