> Now all this is fine, and somewhat amusing, but it's not clear there is any > particular advantage. It's not as though there are piles of 5370s lying around > with dead or missing CPU cards. Or that it's impossible to deal with HPIB > anymore. One interesting possibility is adding new front-panel accessible > measurement functions. Since the emulator has complete bus access it can > detect new key press combinations before the firmware does and go into a > mode where it gathers raw TI samples, processes them, and puts the results > in the display. When an existing key sequence occurs the firmware is > resumed and it doesn't even know it was paused while the new function was > running.
One thing that would be really nice is if you could do frequency readings with a 10-second gate time, as opposed to the current maximum of 1 second. That would make the LSD meaningful instead of completely random, as it is now. -- john, KE5FX _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.