Re: Excel-RS232 via Cheapcomm: Where?

Robert Adsett wrote:

In article <LovKi.9066$JD.147@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Joerg says...

I am not a fan of .NET. It seems to have serious backwards compatibility issues. Case in point: New scope SW came, must have .NET. Installed 2.0, did not work. Inquired -> Must use 1.1 because 2.0 is not compatible. Great. <shaking head>


That appears to be Microsofts latest approach to solving version dependancy issues. Just run a separate copy of every version. So if you have a program using version 1 and another program using version 2 you get both copies in memory.

It appears they've given up on the idea of actually getting it right. I don't know if it's a reasoable approach but it sure rubs the wrong way.


ROFL! That was a good one. But it sure looks like it. Now if it was only ..NET that would be one thing. The world would keep spinning without it. However, it seems there is now an "oh s..t" experience even with Vista.

Anyhow, I have become very careful WRT adopting all this newfangled stuff from up there. Ordered a new desktop today. With XP. Surprisingly the sales guy at the small biz desk told me right off the bat before I had even brought it up "And you want XP on there, right?"

It's not that I am dissing MS for everything. They did produce some nice and useful SW packages. Office being one of them, but also MS-Works.


Just in case you were wondering why disk and memory requirements keep climbing w/o bound.


Bloat without bounds. Funtionality doesn't grow in proportion though. This whole problem with RS232 into spread*** was a non-issue in the DOS days. I used MS-Works. It had a built-in terminal program that could pipe in the data, a spread***, a word processor and a database. So when I wanted to recreate and decode a datastream out of my logic analyzer (to diagnose ADC distortion effects) I grabbed a serial cable, plugged it in, and bingo. No .NET, no Active-X, no DLL hassles. It simply worked.

Heck, if I have my druthers one day I may just go back to that MS-Works program. It's still here, on a 5-1/4 floppy. I wonder if the COM ports can be addressed from a DOS window.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
.