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From:	John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com>
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On Aug 25, 2015, at 8:05 AM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:

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> 
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, John Doty wrote:
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>> On Aug 24, 2015, at 11:56 PM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
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>>> The drive is low too: even with the clumsy modelling John likes to keep bashing pcb for, it works surprisingly well in practice.
>> 
>> I think part of our problem is that if pcb makes sense to you, gschem does not, and vice-versa.
> 
> Can't remember where I said gschem didn't make sense to me... To me both of them make a lot of sense, and I see the shortcomings of both. I don't think gschem is perfect, either.
> 

Perhaps not so much you, but much of the “let’s make gschem better” that I see here is really “let’s make gschem more like pcb”. And, of course, the reason I find pcb such a horror is that it is not like gschem in its design.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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