Re: LeCroy vs Tektronix

Mike Harrison wrote:

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:21:36 +0100, Rene Tschaggelar <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Phil Hobbs wrote:

Mike Harrison wrote:

I quickly dismissed Lecroy when looking at scopes recently as I just
don't like the idea of Windowes
and a hard disk in a scope...


Agreed! A fast scope costs like a midrange server, but has the OS of a
throwaway PC. I generally don't worry too much about a script kiddie
turning my 11801B into a bot via RS232, but one of those Win things....

"I'm sorry, sir, but the Windows version in your oscilloscope is older
than 6 months, so Microsoft no longer supports it...we recommend
restoring from a backup and never connecting it to anything else ever
again. Could we sell you a newer model with liquid-sodium cooled
digitizers? Sir? Sir? What was that about Redmond freezing over? Not
interested? Well, have a nice day."

You consider a selfwitten piece of code to support
the scope functionality to be more solid than
windows ?

Yes, because it is written by the people that designed the hardware, and contains just the code
necessary to do the job, not a huge hunk of other unused junk that comes along for the ride.
Incidentally the Agilent 6000 is based on VxWorks, which is designed for this sort of thing.

Actually it's the hard disk I was more worried about.
When I spend several thousand on a scope I want it to last at least 10 years.

Does it use an actual hard drive, or a solid state drive? The
Microdyne RCB2000 telemetry receiver used embedded NT, and a 80 MB MDISK
solid state drive. I lost count of how many I formatted and installed in
new receivers at the factory. I was surprised when a customer demanded
and got an IDE drive installed in another VME based telemetry receiver
we built. They didn't like solid state drives for some reason.


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