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

[John Phillips]

They will buy several year worth of the chip when it is making its last
production run.

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Daniel Mendes <dmendesf at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
> _______________________________________________
> volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts at febo.com
> To unsubscribe, go to
> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts
> and follow the instructions there.
>



-- 

*John Phillips*