Posting at top on purpose ( cuz I can read backwards )
As unbelieveable as it sounds, I have not abandoned the
idea of an open source MultiAnalyser ( which would include
a DSO )  As soon as my next check comes in I will be throwing
a tangle of wires and an FPGA and stuff to get started.
Because I am not an analog genius, the DSO will only have a
front end bandwidth of 20 MHz.  The rest of the analyzer will be
specified for at least 100 Mbits/sec.

I am standing on the shoulders of giants.
See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MultiAnalyser

POD


On 2006-Apr 03, at 12:15 PM, Robert Rolf wrote:

One of the newer Tek scopes uses JAVA.  (TDS 700)

http://www.tektronix.com/Measurement/cgi-bin/framed.pl?Document=/ 
Measurement/Products/press/javascope/eng/ 
index.html&FrameSet=oscilloscopes

Tektronix Embraces JavaTM Technology

"BEAVERTON, OREGON (March 24, 1998) -- Meeting market demand for
swift access to application-specific measurement capabilities,
Tektronix, Inc. (NYSE: TEK) today introduced the first-ever test
and measurement instrument implementation of JavaTM technology.
This technology, which is to be included by Tektronix with its
future high-end oscilloscopes, includes technology licensed by
Sun Microsystems, Inc. "


So the trick would be decompiling an 'update' to see how things
tick.

R

William Chops Westfield wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2006, at 4:37 AM, Olin Lathrop wrote:
>
>
>> It also pisses me off because we all know it would have been
>> a simple difference in the firmware to have done it right.  I
>> understand things like bandwidth, sample depth, number of
>> channels, etc cost money and that a low end scope will have
>> less of them, but doing this right would have cost nothing extra.
>>
>
> I wonder if anyone will ever sell an open-source oscilloscope?
> Don't like the way the SW works?  Fix it yourself, or download
> the "unstable with enhanced extra knobs" version from your favorite
> repository.  Since a lot of the high end scopes these days seem to
> be essentially PC clones as the Display/UI, it's not unthinkable.
>
> BillW
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