13 Dec
2002
13 Dec
'02
8:34 a.m.
Their current 16700 series LA mainframes (I have one) still run HPUX 10.20
on a PA-RISC CPU with all of the network capabilities of HPUX. I think some
things are disabled by default, but you can boot single user mode and
reconfigure things if you really want to.
I agree that I wouldn't want Windows 9x running on an instrument like this,
but Windows 2000 might not be too bad, as Tek runs on some of their current
LA mainframes.
From: "Eric Smith" <eric(a)brouhaha.com>
Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: The Ne[w|utered] HP (was: RE: The effects of employment)
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:31:25 -0800 (PST)
My biggest gripe with Agilent is that their recent instruments such
as the Infinium series oscilliscopes run Windows. I don't use the
things myself, but I've heard horror stories from friends using them.
It's a shame that they didn't use Linux, or xBSD. Some of their
earlier instruments such as logic analyzers actually acted as NFS
and X clients, but the networking capabilities of Windows are a huge
step backwards.
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13 Dec
13 Dec
8:47 a.m.
Their current 16700 series LA mainframes (I have one)
still run HPUX
10.20 on a PA-RISC CPU with all of the network capabilities of HPUX.
That's because they were designed before Agilent was spun off. It will
be very interesting to see whether then next generation of Agilent logic
analyzers still uses HPUX.
I agree that I wouldn't want Windows 9x running on
an instrument like
this, but Windows 2000 might not be too bad, as Tek runs on some of their
current LA mainframes.
Tek started with Windows 98, that's what runs on ours. From my point
of view, Windows brings nothing useful to the party as compared to a
Unix variant; in fact, I think it's substantially less useful because
the application can't be run as an X client. Perhaps it might be possible
to run VNC, but that would still be limited to the resolution of the
logic analyzer's built in display, whereas with the HP analyzers acting
as a X client, I can take advantage of the full resolution of my desktop
system's display, and multiple virtual screens/desktops, etc.
9:32 a.m.
We used to have a few of these - we called them "Barbie" scopes
because everything had a cheap plastic feel, vinyl smell and gaudy
neon colours. They would crash often and do a scandisk...
The only useful thing was the ether connection to save files,
capture to a net share, or print. The whole scope consisted of
a modified motherboard and a few PCI capture cards .. blech!
I'll take a 16500C series over this any day!
h
>From: "Eric Smith"
<eric(a)brouhaha.com>
>My biggest gripe with Agilent is that their recent instruments such
>as the Infinium series oscilliscopes run Windows. I don't use the
>things myself, but I've heard horror stories from friends using them.
>It's a shame that they didn't use Linux, or xBSD. Some of their
>earlier instruments such as logic analyzers actually acted as NFS
>and X clients, but the networking capabilities of Windows are a huge
>step backwards.
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