The ettiquete of Windows 98 on an HP Oscilloscope (was Re: The ettiquette of Windows XP on a centerpunch)

[Ethan Dicks]

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 10:48:24 +0000, Jules Richardson
<julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 20:06 -0500, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > Unfortunately, there has been this trend lately for multi-channel
> > digital O-scopes to be Windows-based.
> 
> To me that implies that the company behind such beasts have no clue what
> they're doing, given that alternatives exist that are far more robust
> and don't have licensing requirements that push the cost up.

This was an HP scope.  Interpretation of the above left to the reader.
 
> Presumably such machines boot from hard disk too? (I've never seen any
> flavour of Windows boot from ROM). 

Yep.  That was why we had to rebuild it... HD crash (from running it
at 650 millibars for years - the South Pole is tough on hard drives).

-ethan