spartan 3e VQ100 serious question

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:52:59 -0800, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:29:30 +0000, Brian Drummond
><brian_drummond@btconnect.com> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:36:39 -0800 (PST), Josh.OuterSpace@gmail.com
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Dec 12, 10:47 pm, John Larkin
>>><jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:45:47 -0800 (PST), Josh.OuterSp...@gmail.com
>>>> wrote:

>>>It makes more sense to me to have 5 sides than an odd number of pins
>>>one side
>>
>>Tell that to a 7400.
>>
>>- Brian
>
>
>Three horroble mistakes were made, that we suffer from to this day:
>dip packages are physically symmetric; pins are numbered circularly;
>Vcc and ground are in the corners.

... except for the 7490. Which was probably an even worse mistake than
the original corner power pinning, just from the surprise factor.

- Brian