[time-nuts] WTB: Older Version of LabView

Brent Gordon time-nuts at adobe-labs.com
Wed Aug 18 07:19:33 UTC 2010


  I found version 8.0 bloated and slow, especially compared to version 
7.1.  It also slowed my computer to a crawl, even when it wasn't 
running.  Version 8.0 was even worse than 7.0.  Version 8.2 was a little 
bit better.  Version 8.6 was usable, however NI dropped support for 
older systems, which is what I was supporting at the time.  The LabVIEW 
Project (which was added in 8.6, I think) made life easier.  LabVIEW 
2009 is pretty good.  I haven't had a chance to really test LV2010.  I'm 
working with real-time systems and LV2010 isn't recognizing them yet.

For quick and easy use of GPIB, LabVIEW can't be beat.  It also gives 
you easy graphing and saving of data.

In a separate email to the list you said that you wanted to play with 
PCMCIA GPIB on an older Thinkpad.  I recommend you use version 7.1  It 
will do everything you need without bogging down your computer.  For 
hobby use, 8.6 doesn't really get you anything and may be too much for 
your laptop.  I used to run 7.1 on a 1.4 GHz Pentium M laptop, talking 
to three Keithley meters and a switch chassis over GPIB without any 
performance issues.  I also ran the same test systems with 600 MHz 
Celeron processors and 256 MB of memory on Win98, Win2000, and NT 3.5 
systems using 7.1.  On those slow, memory-short systems, screen updates 
were a little slow but I never missed any data.

Note that none of NI's PCMCIA products work with Vista or Win 7.

Brent

On 8/17/2010 8:15 PM, J. Forster wrote:
> I guess "you snooze, you loose". There was just one copy w/o CDs just now.
>
> Why don't you like about Rev 8, if I may ask?
>
> Thank you,
>
> -John
>
> ==============
>
>> Three copies of the Version 7.1 Student Edition are available here
>> (found by a froogle search):
>>
>> http://www.textbooks.com/BooksDescription.php?CSID=DW2BW33KOOKBZKOMODUKCACQS&BKN=715789#mplistings
>>
>>
>> I was going to sell my copy until I saw the prices.  As a long-time
>> LabVIEW programmer, version 7.1 is my favorite.  I really disliked all
>> of the 8.x versions.  The 2009 version isn't bad and I only installed
>> the 2010 version today.
>>
>> Brent
>>
>> On 8/16/2010 11:36 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Does anybody have an older version of NI LabView SW they'd like to sell?
>>> If so, please contact me off list.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -John
>>>
>>> ==============




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