-------- In message <db3pr05mb171eddfb1237019d474778b95...@db3pr05mb171.eurprd05.prod.ou tlook.com>, Alan Ambrose writes:
>>Come on, we all know how this will end... a raspberry-pi like >>processor running a virtual machine emulating the original processor >>(running the same firmware) and taking care of everything digital, >>and the analog asics doing what they do best.... HP48 style. > >Daniel, that made me laugh :). Begs a question though - even if >Agilent or whoever they are called today don't have the smart >personnel or the market incentive to do a good job of bringing the >whole thing up-to-date, they could add a better display, better >connectivity, more stats, smaller packaging, more modern components >etc and leave the clever analogue stuff alone. Sooner or later, >someone is going to want to move the start of the art forward from >the late 1980's. In the HP3458A the cleverness is not just in the analogue stuff. There is no way you could do something like that without stepping over HP's software copyright. You can probably get away with a FOSS project, provided you do it in a way where people extract the necessary bits from their own meter (using GPIB), but there is no way you can (legally) do it as a commercial project. That said, there are *so* many interesting things you could do with that meter with improved software... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts and follow the instructions there.
