On 4/24/20 3:28 PM, medasaro wrote:
On the other hand, it drives me insane that at work we have these new
MSO oscilloscopes from Tektronix that run Windows 7 on an embedded PC.
The things have amazing sampling rate and sample depth plus lots of
bells and whistled, but they... are... painfully... slow... to interact
with. You press one of the buttons around the screen to bring up a menu
and then wait for the better part of a second for it to respond. At home
I have a TDS3034b with an internal M68K running Tek's own firmware. It
responds pretty much instantly. Go figure. The old HP scopes were the
same way - instant to respond to button presses. I just don't get it -
why would anyone in their right mind WANT Windows on an oscilloscope? I
don't want to have to run anti-virus on my scope. Or install windows
updates. Or any of the other #$@%@#$^ that comes with maintaining a
Windows install. And for what? So I can run Excel on the oscilloscope
instead of my workstation? Actually, I would rather do my data
processing on my workstation which has a larger, readable, screen, thank
you.
Agreed 100%. Those Winstruments are garbage. My assumption is that
the companies who have gone that route did so either due to kickbacks or
wanting to have cheaper developers working on the products.
Don't worry, there are enough real test instruments to last through
our lifetimes at least. Let the clueless kids flock to their
Winstruments, they'll probably install games on them anyway.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Dave McGuire