Hello Craig!

Replying to a message of Craig Swanson to Greg Rollins:

 GR>> Is anyone using OS2 2.11 in any type of monitoring and control
 GR>> application?   The company I work for has been using Windoze for
 GR>> some

 CS> I'm using OS/2 for a series of medical data acquisition projects.  No
 CS> "control" is involved, however.  These projects would
have been close
 CS> to hopeless on DOS or Windows in my opinion.  OS/2 is a good choice
 CS> as it can reliably handle concurrent 38400 bps throughput on multiple
 CS> serial ports along with overlapped disk I/O, printing, and user
 CS> interface operations.  And the application components will be readily
 CS> convertible to operation over a distributed LAN when we need that
 CS> type of configuration.


I am also doing a medical data acquisition project.  I must agree
wholeheartedly, what has been pretty much a snap would have been an awful
mess under Dos or Windows.  I must say, however, I only need to read data
from the comport at about a rate of 40 bps.  I am thankful, because I have
a bit pattern coming on a strange line (one of the bits in the status
bit...128) that is "toggleing" at odd rates (frequencies). Not
coming over the data line.  Well, I don't think DosDevIOCtl is very fast,
and if I had to keep calling it at a higher rate... I dunno.  I would have
to write a device driver just to handle that one bit, which is never fun.

Things worked out without having to do that, which is nice.

Bye, Ed!

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