Woodrick, Ed wrote:
Now, if you had a regular radio, would you install a toaster in it? What about
using it as a remote control. Hopefully your answer is no. So why do you make
your SDR controller a Word Processor? A game machine? A movie viewer?
I understand what you're getting at but, when it comes down to it, this
_isn't_ a regular radio! I fully expect the PC component of my radio to
be many other things as well.
Yes, I am careful about what I allow on there but I have yet to be
persuaded that my _general purpose computer_ cannot remain exactly that,
including running PowerSDR! To date, after obtaining a suitably fast
machine I have had zero problem running the radio and a variety of other
applications and have no intention of stripping this PC down to be a
glorified radio controller.
As you say, performance is going to depend on a variety of individual
choices of hardware, software, and configuration, and individual
mileage will vary, but I do not accept it as a given that the PC cannot
continue to perform as a general purpose device.
73, Pete, N3EVL
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