I hate to keep this discussion going waaaaay past its useful life but I think the record needs to be reset.
Deep Impact came from a period when Frank Brickle was thinking about a next generation of PSDR and proposed a decoupled model where the radio operations were networked and separate from the user interface. He was excited about the language Erlang at the time and was interested in using its incredible networking capability to achieve this. In doing this, Frank was acting as one of the open source authors of the program, not as a Flex employee (although he may have been a consultant at the time). To be very fair, Flex has actually said very little about what their vision of Deep Impact would be. We all took Frank's vision as the Flex vision and have built upon its potential benefits to solve things we wished PSDR could do today. I know I have said "Deep Impact will solve this..." in terms of many issues, especially OS X/Linux implementation, but Flex, to my knowledge, has never said anything about what DI would be, except the next generation of PSDR. All we have heard was some talk about freeing up resources to work on DI about a year ago. I know in the few emails I have sent to Steve Hicks and others, no comments were ever shared as whether Frank's vision was the vision they had, or even if they had a vision at that time. Lets roll forward a year and see where we are now. Flex hasn't made any comments about DI in a year (in terms of saying it had active plans). Flex hasn't made any real announcements about any releases in that year. One major thing that has happened is they have become much more professional as an IT team and have instituted a real project management culture. So, they know more about what they have in the current version of PSDR and they know more about what they can do. The most dangerous thing they can do, however, is to start some major rewrite while the competition creeps slowly closer to the existing product line and for the rewrite to fail due to it being beyond their reach (or really beyond their ability to know whether they can do it or not). This is one of the most common death knells for emerging companies. I trust Steve, Eric and the boys to know what they can do, and I feel they know what they cannot do. They have a great platform, more real market experience than anyone else and there is still a lot they can do with PowerSdR, as witnessed by the ESC and TNF implementations. Most of my complaints with PSDR are not caused by its architecture and I have to admit that I do not really know if the one I really want can or cannot be (full duplex dual channel VAC output for dual RX 5000s). The DI story actually is one of us saying what we thought DI was and Flex saying very little. So those dashed expectations are not with Flex but with us "experts". 73 On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 7:53 PM, James Duffey <[email protected]>wrote: > Bob - You wrote: > > "There will not ever likely be a day when you can download or purchase > "deep impact"... > > Does this imply that in the foreseeable future we will not see a Flex user > interface for operating systems other than Windows? - Duffey KK6MC/r > > -- > KK6MC > James Duffey > Cedar Crest NM > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 beta versions of the software. > -- Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com Work:(540) 645 5394 Mobile:(540) 645 8171 _______________________________________________ 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 beta versions of the software.
