RE: New solution for OS X

2004-06-14 Thread Uwe Frenz
Urs, you wrote on June 11: I personally prefer a real RT controller over a gray PC box. However this of course could be a viable option too, a bit bulky maybe. Will the PharLap OS control any DAQ boards in the PC box the same way it does it on a PXI form factor chassis. I had this opinion too when

RE: New solution for OS X

2004-06-11 Thread Urs Lauterburg
Norman, Isn't this the way RT was first implemented on Windoze hosts. Just a RT PCI DAQ board and nothing else. These boards kept running even without the booted OS on the host machine. Obviously the line power was essential though. I think as time passes NI's concept of actually downloading the

RE: New solution for OS X

2004-06-11 Thread Norman Kirchner
What would be a true milestone for the computer based RT world would be a RT PCI card. A card that would not be a slave to the system that it is connected to but rather running in parallel, simply using the PCI bus as means to power it and to facilitate comms on a need basis. Then to top it all off