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« on: April 22, 2006, 04:09:40 pm »
Jack,
You will get a few comments about Linux when you mention it here.
The fact is that system programmers that worked on Unix from ATT,
Sun OS, Berkeley Unix, and all the REAL operating systems prefer
Linux or the Open BSD types. I find that the windows programmer
types of today only know windows and have not been exposed to
the heavy duty OS's. I have also found that many of todays windows
type people have not much formal training or credentials. Getting
back to your question, yes it's not hard to write a simple read and
write routines that go through the Linux serial port. You can interface
that stuff with a graphical user interface using TCL/TK. My own
experience has been that I get a 4 times plus speed improvement
when I use my own ISP software rather than flashmagic (no offense
to the authors of flashmagic). I also like the way I can read multiple
blocks in flash and have those blocks in seperate boxes on my
screen, where as in flashmagic you only get a single display box.
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