Hi Meindert,
Regardless of the cause (hardware glitch or software bug)
there is NO PRACTICAL APPLICATION for a system which crashes,
(apart from as an example of human fallability).
There are enough examples of human fallability in the real world.
The oil crisis (this one is real and permanent) and environmental degradation are the main one I think about.
The answers to your question are:
RELIABILITY and PRICE ;-)
An extensible hardware platform and optional HARDWARE FLAGS are an extra bonus. Since when does anyone have to STOP at the point others have reached?
I do want to politely make the point that I am only interested in practical applications for this regretably ancient machine. If others want to work on extending it I think that is JUST WONDERFUL!
that others already have is great.
Thanks to your work Meindert and Diego D. and John I. and many others we have these marvellous gadgets. They are GREAT, but they are not perfect.
I am only coming up to speed fully with all the history of these projects. However I note that these guys didn't have to BUILD THEIR OWN Logic State Analyzers. So maybe I can contribute something to all this?
What would be helpful to the community if painful for the developers is a public bug list so that if/when designs are
released the community can work on squashing them.
After all, that's what they did at hp R and D...
Have a nice day.
Don Wallace
Edited: 3 Oct 2005, 7:24 p.m.