On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:05 PM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > * Add GPIB support for Linux only - probably the only platform where > this is doable with totally free software. FreeBSD would be possible > if the port was complete. Solaris and OS X would probably need to use > a commerical driver for the GPIB card. As I remarked the other day, > the real issue to get commerical developers to use Sage for instrument > control is having drivers for their instruments. But if the basic GPIB > driver was implemented, then a couple of commands could be written in > Sage to basically send and receive data. Drivers for specific > instruments would essentially require the user to write the code based > on their manual for the instrument. Getting a cheap instrument to test > the basic code on is very easy.
There is already http://pyvisa.sourceforge.net/ which looks like it provides this. --Mike -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
