+Jonathan Strobl (joni-st) so it works similar to dsl vectoring?

@@Leonelf0 Wait DSL is supposed to work?

Yes, it has standard PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors as well as USB connectors and a DVI video port.

I'm a bit blown away by the fact it's not running on linux. Such an expensive piece of equipment running on the equivalent of a mcdonalds big mac to run the show.

Not really, there are plenty of applications where, surprisingly, windows is actually perfect for. Personally, I would think that Linux would be a bit shit for a scope but I haven't messed around with many scopes so I don't have enough knowledge about them. In saying that, it would be a massive pain in the ass to make a custom "OS" for it. I guess that's the reason why a lot of the "embedded devices" I see are so slow and shit, they probably outsource it to India where good programming is but a myth told only in small circles and knowledge about the hardware it is being run on is laughable absent. Bloody slow ass terminals with no feedback or any facade of quality programming, McDonalds, Woolworths, and Coles should be ashamed of themselves.

Windows is perfect for nothing except torture. Professional people use Unix.

This instrument costs like $100k. I inquired about reinstalling Windows on another Agilent instrument costing $10k-20k, and was told it would be $700 minimum to reinstall the OS if the recovery partition was inoperable. Hopefully the cost of repair does not scale linearly with the cost of the instrument, otherwise expect to pay $7000 to get the OS reinstalled hahahah

Don't call it a 'Big Mac' if it ran on a Mac it would be far superior :p

USB 1.0 certification for 1.5Mbit USB 1.1 certification for the 12 Mbit USB 2.0 certification for the 480 Mbit

+StarTrek123456 i think so i hope it's not vista

Scarry Polpetta The old theme of vista looks different.

Windows 3.11

i hope not 150,000 dollar for a machines that runs windows PFFF

It uses Vista and i am not kidding :)

That connector is still used, some usb hubs have it, for example.

HP. The real HP, not one of the two spun off computer divisions that own the name. And HP started in a Silicon Valley garage, way before Apple did.

And it's on Windows 7.

in software we have a phrase, "don't reinvent the wheel".

It runs windows xp

Ed Crutchley nothing runs windows XP anymore.

***** 10 million is an absolutely tiny number if you put it into the perspective of the year 2015 and an amount of computers which is even bigger than the entire population. Nothing runs on XP anymore - except for obsolete, soon-to-be-replaced systems which nobody cared about up until now (because they're unimportant). Get over it : XP is dead and if you want to have our computer running you need to uninstall OR disconnect it from the internet entirely; its not only danger to itself but also every other vulnerable computer out there. There will always be people who refuse to adapt - and these are always the same people who get left behind. If you want to be "different" simply buy a macintosh - if you want to have something "reliable" use linux - its no problem to keep the same version of linux for DECADES, most of the time. The only OS which "degrades" over time is windows - scriptkiddies keep creating attacks for obsolete software hence users NEED to stay updated, otherwise they soon will suffer the fate of ignorancy.

***** so what you're saying is you made numbers up and now you're insulting everyone. Additionally, you start making up words, also - what the shit is "putting words in my GUI" supposed to mean? Nevermind, i think its time for you to do your homework, young internet forum troll.

***** yes, yes - but : your homework. It needs to be done.