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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Newbie to list, old timer to this hobby and others

2006-12-26 by DJ Delorie

"Wayne C. Gramlich" <Wayne@...> writes:
> My recollection is that PCB (the printed circuit board program
> layout program) is based on the X11 window system, which tends
> to make it very *nix centric.

PCB is based on Gtk or Lesstif. There is a native Gtk for Windows
(using MinGW, not Cygwin), which PCB uses for Windows support. The
Lesstif GUI works under OS/X's OpenMotif. Either GUI works (your
choice :) under *nix.

Someone's working on porting it to the Amiga (again), too, using
ReactOS.

We've been busy this last year!

> OK, I just checked the FAQ for PCB:

Yeah, the docs are out of date.

> There are no artificial size restrictions on gEDA or KiCAD.

I calculated once that PCB could do a board that was 0.25 miles to a
side, at 0.000010" resolution.

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