On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:18:55PM -0700, Matt Karaffa wrote: > Bonjour to all the developers - > I have one quick question - I am not sure if it has been asked > before. Why is the layout-extraction tool named "lynx"? This happens to > be the name of the popular console-based web browser for UNIX, and can > cause some confusion if both are in the user's path (It confused me a lot > for a minute). > Thank you for any response this might merit - I appreciate all the > work that has been put into developing and supporting the Alliance > tool-set. I do claim the invention of the name Lynx, and it is prior art compared to the web browser! Lynx means LaYout to Netlist eXtraction (a little hairy, I agree ;), and it was named so in june 1991, if I remember well. We had some pressure to rename the thing, and it probably will be named «~cougar~» in future alliance versions. It will then be harder to explain why it is so. Note also that the ROM generator of Alliance is called Grog, for Generic ROm Generator, that is also the name of GNU roff tools front end. It will be renamed «~toddy~», probably. Happy hacking, Fred -- @----------------------,-,-----,-------------------------------------@ |Ad augusta Frederic PETROT: MC d'ASIM/LIP6/UPMC (Paris VI) | |Per angusta 55-65/201 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05 | |Work:331 44275415 Fax:331 44277280 Frederic.Petrot@lip6.fr | |Home:331 47129513 //www-asim.lip6.fr/~fred/ | @--------------------------------------------------------------------@