They will buy several year worth of the chip when it is making its last production run.
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Daniel Mendes <dmend...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 13/05/2015 03:14, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> 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... >> >> > My (half) joke was that someday Keysight will need to address the > unobtenium 68000 chips (and others) by emulating themselves all the digital > parts of the meter... > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- *John Phillips* _______________________________________________ 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.