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

Pete Turnbull pete at dunnington.u-net.com
Mon Mar 7 05:16:58 CST 2005


On Mar 7 2005, 10:48, Jules Richardson 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.

Well, I won't claim that this refutes the above, but I know that some
Tek products have used W95/W98 for many years.  One of the grooups in
CompSci rented a fancy digital scope/analyser some years ago
((1998-ish) and discovered it was running W95 underneath.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York


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