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From: markb@solbourne.com (Mark Bradley)
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Subject: Re: National Instruments GPIB-SPARC1-S / NI-488M
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In article <1906@brchh104.bnr.ca> jeffz@corp.sun.com (Jeffrey Zank - SBus Software) writes:
>| Does anyone have any experience using this interface on a Sparc-1 and
>| SunOS 4.1?  I had it running under 4.0.3 but have had no success with 4.1.
>
>There are no technical reasons for why this would not work.  Their are no
>real differences between the 2 SunOS releases in this area that could
>effect this.  Call National and ask them what's up, i'm sure that they
>would like to hear about this.

Not necessarily so.  The tools supplied by National Instruments may be a
culprit, as in their original "unix" implementation, they expected certain
kernel structures.  If they did not exist (like string tables at the end
our Irix kernel), then the tools did not work.

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