You do not have to read this document in order to start to work with EDA; the information provided here can wait until the need arises.
Users already familiar with previous versions of this manual, should read the notes on changes, before reading the rest of the manual.
Please note, that specific EDA versions may have additional information, namely there is a PC section
System or group administrators (e.g. teachers) who want to take advantage of facilities like profiles shared by groups (sharing common definitions and data libaries) or need to set up EDA in a specific way, e.g. in a PC environment you might want to force the users to store their own data sets on floppy disks, while using the program and the shared data libraries from a hard disk.
Please bear in mind that a number of facilities offered here are useful on multi-user systems, others more on single-user systems. Therefore the facilities range from setting up a PC environment for a single user, setting up a PC environment where more than one user share the same PC or multi-user environments on a large main-frame where dozens of users work with the software.
If you have received a self-installing version, e.g. a PC version, the information provided here will be interesting only later, when you need to set up EDA for a specific user environment; EDA is supplied with a PC specific environment.