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05/24/07 20:33
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#139792 - crappy GUI
Responding to: ???'s previous message
I don't know if that is the REASON (I can imagine many many reasons - rapidly changing bus environment, prohibitive price of PCI solutions, high noise environment, temperature management problems but what I have seen of this cathegory - including also the "box connected to PC" type - it all fell over on the controlling GUI.

As I said above, it's too easy to say it's easy to program a GUI on a PC. But, when it comes to usability, a PC which has to be booted, with permanently fighting HW and SW, and, most of all, a mouse-click-based GUI is hopelessly inferior to a couple of real knobs and buttons and an ever-working-just-after-being-switched-on measurement DEVICE.

My SKK 0.02 (practically zero).

JW

PS. One day when I will have more courage will show here my pikoLA, a PC-connected '51-based rudimentary logic analyser... OK the PC-side IS a bad joke...

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TopicAuthorDate
[OT] DSO- How it's made ?            01/01/70 00:00      
   look at ADC spec's.            01/01/70 00:00      
      in other words,            01/01/70 00:00      
         Not quite            01/01/70 00:00      
            tricks & tricks            01/01/70 00:00      
               Analog memories...            01/01/70 00:00      
               that's what the analog 'scope does!            01/01/70 00:00      
   Some interesting reading from Maxim            01/01/70 00:00      
   I have no doubt you can            01/01/70 00:00      
      use for what            01/01/70 00:00      
   Expansion slot test equipment            01/01/70 00:00      
      there is now a plethora of such with USB            01/01/70 00:00      
         crappy GUI            01/01/70 00:00      
            I prefer the "feel" of manually controlled gear            01/01/70 00:00      
         Can't be done, or just hasn't been done?            01/01/70 00:00      
            there's no reason it couldn't            01/01/70 00:00      
               The PeeCee would get in the way            01/01/70 00:00      
                  not only...            01/01/70 00:00      
                     a few buttons, dials, and knobs, but not enough            01/01/70 00:00      
   Critics and suggestions invited - 1GHz sampler            01/01/70 00:00      

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