Alan, I don't know the answer to that yet.
Gerald Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR President and CEO FlexRadio Systems(TM) 13091 Pond Springs Road, #250 Austin, TX 78729 Phone: 512-535-4713 Ext. 202 Email: [email protected] Web: www.flex-radio.com Tune In Excitement (TM) PowerSDR(TM) is a trademark of FlexRadio Systems On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Alan NV8A <[email protected]> wrote: > Gerald, > > I was not suggesting that *you* (Flex Radio) have to do anything about > making it work on out-of-the-mainstream platforms. But will DI be "open > enough" to allow people familiar with a particular "weird" OS to make it > work on that OS? > > 73 > > Alan NV8A > > > > On 06/18/10 09:27 am, Gerald Youngblood wrote: > > I have not idea if it will run on any or all those platforms but I can >> assure you we will not be able to justify the engineering cost to qualify >> on >> all those platforms unless there is commercial funding to do so. >> > > But do you refer to those three operating systems merely as examples or as >>> the only three operating systems you will support? My impression from >>> earlier descriptions of DI was that someone with the necessary smarts >>> would >>> be able to adapt DI to run on *any* OS -- e.g., Free BSD, AmigaOS (I >>> understand it still has aficionados), or even "the operating system for >>> which Windows was intended to be merely a placeholder" (otherwise known >>> as >>> OS/2, which lives on in an OEM version, a new version of which was >>> released >>> just weeks ago: www.ecomstation.com). >>> >> > If by "platform neutral" you mean cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux), >>> >>>> the answer is yes. >>>> >>> > Much of what has been written here is over my head, but the one question >>>> >>>>> that springs to mind now is: If parts, at least, of DI will be >>>>> proprietary, >>>>> will it still be platform neutral, as we were earlier given to >>>>> understand >>>>> that it would be? >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using alpha and beta versions of the software.
