Fast enough computer for LabView?

[stupid]

Hello, I would like to know if I have a sufficient computer to run a
LabView application I'm developing. I have just ordered the PCI/232-16
Serial Interface card from National Instruments and plan to use it with
a Pentium 150 with 64MB of memory running Window NT. My LabView
application will contain a while loop for each of the ports on the card,
that's 16 while loops just to let you know. In each while loop I'll be
writing and reading to the port and displaying the read data to the
Front Panel display. If anyone can comment on what I have so far, or can
comment on the execution speed of LabView, please let me know.

Thanks,
Joe

[srm@viewpointusa.com]

I have developed LabVIEW apps for 8 years on PC's. A 486/66 could implement
the type of program that you are describing. Along with more horsepower, a
more sophisticated program with more bells and whistles can be implemented.
I may take some patience waiting for programs to boot etc., but the computer
will be able to perform the task. Remember to "choke" each while loop with
an appropriate "wait" value to balance execution to acceptable levels.

Stu McFarlane

"Joe Lindula" wrote in message
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> Hello, I would like to know if I have a sufficient computer to run a
....
> Front Panel display. If anyone can comment on what I have so far, or can
> comment on the execution speed of LabView, please let me kno
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>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>

[CraigGraham]

Stu McFarlane wrote in message
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> I have developed LabVIEW apps for 8 years on PC's. A 486/66 could
implement
> the type of program that you are describing. Along with more horsepower,
a
> more sophisticated program with more bells and whistles can be
implemented.
> I may take some patience waiting for programs to boot etc., but the
computer
> will be able to perform the task. Remember to "choke" each while loop
with
> an appropriate "wait" value to balance execution to acceptable levels.

Is that a 486/66 with Win3.1 and Labview3 or a 486/66 with NT4 and Labview6?
🙂

It depends on the required datarate as to whether the machine is up to it; I
have a similar spec- P133 with 90-s
omething megs and use that with a 16
channel MIO card and two AMUXes to take 64 channels of data at 2KHz per
channel, though I only store averaged values of the data for each channel at
2s intervals. The machine copes perfectly adequately with only on average
20% cpu power. The situation may be different from the serial card case in
that the MIO card is capable of doing the DAQ itself and buffering the data-
the VI doesn't have to read each datapoint explicitly. I don't think I'd be
able to stream the raw 64*2KHz data to disk though on that machine. May be
wrong, of course- the filesizes such an approach would generate over 4 weeks
has meant I've never tried.

[Kevin_work]

Craig Graham wrote:

> Stu McFarlane wrote in message
> news:oG%Q5.213039$JS3.33500114@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com...
> > I have developed LabVIEW apps for 8 years on PC's. A 486/66 could
> implement
> > the type of program that you are describing. Along with more horsepower,
> a
> > more sophisticated program with more bells and whistles can be
> implemented.
> > I may take some patience waiting for programs to boot etc., but the
> computer
> > will be able to perform the task. Remember to "choke" each while loop
> with
> > an appropriate "wait" value to balance execution to acceptable levels.
>
> Is that a 486/66 with Win3.1 and Labview3 or a 486/66 with NT4 and Labview6?
> 🙂
>

Not sure about Stu, but my home machine is over 7
yrs old.
486DX2 /50 with 32M ram, running Win95B.
Original Paradise VGA, 3rd modem now 28.8, 2nd CD-ROM now 2x
Original SB-16, 3rd C: drive now 540M, extra 😧 drive of 1G (part as 2 600M)
Have been running LabVIEW since 4.x now on 6i. Not having any problems.
Of course I do not do any DAQ (All IDE slots ya know).

Could not load Win98 cuz MS chokes if it is less than 66MHz.
Of course they told me that 95 would not run in 8M of ram but it does (poorly
that is why I now have 32M)
Some software guys at work are begging for P3-733 with 256M ram and 10G HDD
They nearly choked to death when I showed them my code that runs perfectly on
the old "Clunker"
Hahahahahahahahahaha :)~

Kevin Kent