[volt-nuts] "*WAY* too expensive for even Keysight to redesign"

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed May 13 14:02:24 EDT 2015


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In message <6.2.5.6.2.20150513113523.072f25d0 at comcast.net>, "Marv @ Home" writes:

>Aside, there are private fabrication houses that make short runs of 
>obsolete chips [...]

Ehh, dudes...  a m68k compatible chip is not unobtanium.

Besides, the HP3458A is written mostly in K&R style C, using
IEEE floating point so porting it to another chip is not a big deal.

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