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Re: [Gnucap-devel] Gnucap Comprehensive Help System Implementation Detai
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al davis |
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Re: [Gnucap-devel] Gnucap Comprehensive Help System Implementation Details |
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Sun, 25 May 2014 13:26:38 -0400 |
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On Sunday 25 May 2014, Felix Salfelder wrote:
> CARD is the base class for everything.
CKT_BASE is the base class for everything.
CARD is only things that can be objects in a netlist or circuit
file.
NODE is CKT_BASE, but not CARD.
> i am not sure where the terminology originates from, but it
> seems to be quite common. maybe it dates back to a time when
> people fed punch cards into their mainframes..
That's it!
If you look at the documentation for early versions of SPICE,
the term CARD is used there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollerith_card