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>Why would they develop their hardware in Linux? Because all large scale, big name, commercial HW, CAD and EDA tools are either Windows and/or Linux exclusive.
by ChuckNorris89 5y ago
>Why would they develop their hardware in Linux?
Because all large scale, big name, commercial HW, CAD and EDA tools are either Windows and/or Linux exclusive.
EDA vendors don't even bother with the tiny (non existent?) market share of MacOS in this space when their entire customer base has been exclusively *nix and Windows for several decades now.
- scns 5y agoWhat does EDA stand for?
- ChuckNorris89 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_design_automation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_design_automation
- _ph_ 5y agoLinux, or some Unix of the old times. Some EDA tools are still available on PowerPC (not sure about the state of Sparc).
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoYeah, before X86 took the performance crown in the '90 most of EDA was done on mainframes or PowerPC workstations running UNIX, including SGI.
- _ph_ 5y agoIn professional environments, x86 really took over only in the mid-2000s, especially with the Opteron. Whether x86 ever took the performance crown is debatable, if you consider the big PowerPCs IBM still sells.