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Charlie England wrote:
I run xp home & xp pro at home, xp pro at work supported by a Huge IT group (US Gov. agency). XP is much more reliable than the older versions; it only locks up once every week or two instead of every day like the older versions.
No thanks on MS in the cockpit, except for stuff like an iPaq that's non-essential.
Charlie
al p Wick wrote:
I suspect there are not Unix versions, but don't know for sure. You may
be able to find out from wonderware web site. There are no penalties for
using windows. Particularly newer versions.
There are some Open Source projects under development that run on Linux. They aren't as robust and feature-rich as you'd find in a commercial SCADA product, but they might do for some basic data logging and sensor displays. I'd suggest taking a look at Qt4Lab (http://www.qt4lab.com/). This is an interesting little project that includes a chart-style data plotter (good for charting temperatures) and a series of basic control/display widgets (dial, thermometer, LED bar graph, some switches, etc.) Some assembly is required, but if you want a cheap/free solution it may be a good foundation.
If you just want data logging, any basic terminal program hooked to a serial output on an instrument will do the job, provided the instrument is capable of serial output.
Regards,
Chad
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