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"Bob Dalesio" <[email protected]> · Tue, 18 Mar 2003 05:59:09 -0700

He points out that you can still buy
CAMAC hardware,

but how much CAMAC hardware are they using at the SNS?

Forgive me if I wasn't clear -

My point was that instrumentation buses outlive computer
buses. I don't think that anyone should start with the
oldest instrumenation bus that they can find.
With regard to putting real-time into home-grown hardware,
please see all of the devices around the globe that are
not supported as they were home-grown and the designer is
no longer around. I really see this as a last resort.
A number of spares for bit-bus would have been helpful.
Today, it seems a good bet to put anything you can on the
ethernet. The protocol to talk to the device may not be
standard, but the transport over the wire is. Bit-bus did
not share the same popularity. I think the lesson is to
choose instrumenation buses that are well supported.
Bob
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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