Suitability of OS/2 2.0 for data aquisistion

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From: Thomas Koenig
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 07:26

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How suitable is OS/2 2.0 for data aquisition tasks?

Is it stable enough that, for example, people can work on the machine for
days while data is being gathered, without crashing it?

Can a program running in a DOS-box do hardware I/O, so present data
aquisition programs can be used?  Could the environment of a DOS-box
modified to allow this, maybe?

Is it possible to incorporate MS-DOS *.LIB - files into OS/2 device
drivers? How difficult would the interface be to write?

How is file sharing arranged? Could I, for example, read from an output
file using GNUPLOT while that file is being written to? Could that file
be opened for appending while it is being read by another program?
-- 
Thomas Koenig, ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz, ib09@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
diagram.

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Subject: Suitability of OS/2 2.0 for data aquisistion
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From: ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 07:26:59 GMT
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