[volt-nuts] "*WAY* too expensive for even Keysight to redesign"

[Daniel Mendes]

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