Bob Miller wrote:

...
And once MSoft moves on to another operating system, your black box
will be... yesterday's modern?

I still have a lovely AEA Packratt, but it runs on a Commodore 64.

bob
k5qwg


As I have pointed out, in a previous post, the software which drives
this rig is open source ... that means you can compile it and run it on
linux. (Wine will even allow you to run windows programs on a linux
machine.)

Although they have attempted to obsfucate some functions in the software
by supplying pre-compiled libraries which the software calls, some of us
have reverse engineered these.

My rig has no frequency blocks, for instance. Transmit freqs run the
full range this rig is capable of receiving.

Open source is the key ... However, FlexRadio has plans for supplying
the linux software "in the box" and ready for use. There is just not
much of hurry here as 95%+ of hams run windows ... (probably 99.9999%!)

Regards,
JS