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

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Wed May 13 14:10:49 EDT 2015


On 5/13/2015 1:02 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> In message <6.2.5.6.2.20150513113523.072f25d0 at comcast.net>, "Marv @ Home" writes:
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>> 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.
>
And now that you mention it, there are FPGA/ASIC 68K cores as well.

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