RE: OpenG VISA

[<pat...@si...>]

I looked at Racal again. They have a hardlink to NI's ftp site. I wonder if
they paid? An end-user probably won't know.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ope...@li...
> [mailto:ope...@li...]On
>  Behalf Of
> John Ryland
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 11:04 AM
> To: ope...@li...
> Subject: RE: OpenG VISA
> 
> 
> I am a developer at Keithley. We license VISA from NI and are 
> allowed to redistribute it with our instrument drivers. So as 
> long as you use our driver with our instrument (of course) 
> then you can use VISA. But if you create a product to sell 
> with our driver then you don't get the right to redistribute 
> the VISA you have to purchase it or license it like we do 
> from NI, Agilent or Tek.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ope...@li...
> [mailto:ope...@li...]On
>  Behalf Of
> pat...@si...
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 10:36 AM
> To: ope...@li...;
> Inf...@la...
> Subject: RE: OpenG VISA
> 
> 
> I did a quick Google search looking for other VISA 
> implementations. I find
> it kind of funny that Keithly and Racal provide the "free" 
> NI-VISA runtimes.
> Looks like we weren't the only ones who thought it was free of charge.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ope...@li...
> > [mailto:ope...@li...]On
> >  Behalf Of
> > Michael Ashe
> > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 9:32 AM
> > To: ope...@li...
> > Subject: RE: OpenG VISA
> > 
> > 
> > Hi gents,
> > 
> > I have been out of the VXI plug-n-play and VISA arema for a 
> > while, so forgive me for asking this, but, Rolf and others 
> > mention HP and NI VISA libraries, but no one else. VISA is an 
> > open standard. Does any other company besides HP & NI have a 
> > VISA implementation?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Mike Ashe
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> > Imaginatics     860-444-2141
> > mic...@im...
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> > ---- ope...@li... wrote:
> > > Instead of replacing VISA32.DLL we could create for the time being
> > > a library which is in principle compatible and built on the same
> > > architecture but name it for instance ogvisa.dll/shl/...
> > > ... snip...
> > > Once it is working properly ... anyone wants to test or use it 
> > > ... instead of relying on the NI or HP version.
> > > 
> > > Rolf Kalbermatter
> > 
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