On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Dave Gomberg <da...@wcf.com> wrote:
> ....There sure are a ton of bugs in PSDR.... > ========== Well, it's true that coding and testing errors remain, even at this late date. But a lot of the problems arise from the fact that the design of putting the radio inside the computer, and at the mercy of the computer's configuration, turned out to be a lot more complicated than the designers originally thought. When the computer goes to sleep, for example, the ports may go to sleep and the drivers may lose their mind; that could be what happened to you. Or, on another note, the Flex SDR design naturally didn't anticipate the arrival of cloud storage, which creates a bunch of interrupts that can clobber PSDR. Every OS update, or even every new user application, brings the possibility of environment changes that can mess things up. The original idea was that making your radio software-based would reduce obsolescence, but the effect has been the opposite: changes in the computing environment can obsolete code that once worked. Keeping it going is sorta like running on a treadmill that keeps speeding up. Tony KT0NY _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
