Thanks for the reply. I wouldn't say I'm a compelling case to
base a support decision on; I'm just wondering what the future might
hold.
I'm asking because I just joined a lab that already has a large number
of PCMCIA-GPIB cards, and I came in with a Mac notebook. Since
that's the machine where I have all my notes, Mathematica, Matlab, and
so forth, it would have been vaguely convenient not to have to migrate
or muck about transferring data from another machine. (There's no
dedicated desktop host for the instruments here; people use notebooks
to talk to whatever they're using at the time.) I suspect that if
they buy more GPIB cards, they'll probably be USB rather than PCMCIA,
but there's not a lot of interest in replacing hardware that's
generally seen to work perfectly well. In the end, it's not an
insurmountable problem; I'll borrow a Windows machine and transfer data.
Actually, another pie-in-the-sky question: are specs for those cards
available that would allow someone to write a third-party driver, or
are those kept confidential because the drivers are an NI product?
Best,
Mike
