I would tend to agree on the copyright concerns. I'm retired from HP/Agilent, and happen to know the guys that do the support on them, so I just forwarded these messages to one of them. Perhaps we can get a solid "OK", or at least one with such strings attached!
Daun N8ASB -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Poul-Henning Kamp Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:07 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] HP8568B firware eproms anyone ? In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Ackermann N8UR writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp said the following on 10/18/2006 05:48 PM: > >> I'm not sure if the firmware of the 8566B is different from the >> 8568B, anyone know ? > >I'm pretty sure that the '66 firmware is different than the '68, or I'd >offer to copy mine for you. I would expect so, but on the other hand wouldn't be surprised if they were the same. >> I think this is the second report of eprom failures I recall on the >> list, should we start to make a EEPROM library for futures sake ? > >That's not a bad idea, though it does unfortunately raise copyright >concerns... Not as long as the firmware is used only in original HP equipment. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
