Declan Moriarty wrote: > You've all heard of pc upgrades; I've just fluttered a few quid on a > downgrade. Exact specs (Intel)'386, 4MB, 40MB HD, ISA bus, cga (sub > hercules) orange screen. > Why? I hear you ask in pained anguish. Well It's luggable (The size above > laptops - transportable but using standardish parts). I can get cheap pc > oscilliscopes, cheap pc eprom programmers, and even cheap pc logic analysers > and use them in my business. I can also use it for plc programming. If the pc > is luggable, I can get that kit around the place. I even have an Analogue > Signature Analyser which runs off a pc serial port and helps greatly in my > hardware repair business - if I have a serial port handy. Enter the luggable.
I'm curious about these cheap pc oscilliscopes etc. How do they connect to the computer? What kind of software do they use/require? How cheap is cheap? What does the luggable have to connect these things that a laptop doesn't? > The miniature linuxes I've tried are: Tomsrtbt - fine, but inscrutable and > difficult to modify; mulinux - d/l'ed something, got past the tar command but > hung on the make, and lost intest 'cos I got busy. I don't mind a console > only interface, but a version of X would be better Seems to me that even in the early days 40MB was near minimum. Add DOS and such and I doubt you'll get X on. You might look at http://www.directfb.org - maybe it will be useful, although it is newer than the hardware you have, I think. Dave _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
