I have Labview 2X for the Macintosh 68K version. Can i upgrade to Labview 6X Windows version?

[Gorka Larrea]

As long as i know, LabVIEW 6 is not sold as an upgrade, but as a complete program, perhaps having a previous version will make difference in the price, but i'm not sure about that.

[Dennis_Knutson]

If you go to the upgrade advisor at http://amp.ni.com/ua/jsp/UASelectProducts.jsp/, you'll get pricing and other upgrade information. I believe they have upgrade options going all the way back to version 1.

[John Lum]

I'll bet the community has some good input on issues to watch out for, but in principle this 2.x-to-6.0 cross-platform upgrade is completely doable, with the appropriate compatibility conversion kits. That's one of the great things about LabVIEW.

The NI Web site has a nice Upgrade Advisor (http://www.ni.com/upgrade) that can help identify the elements you would need, including the compatibility kit info. Ultimately, you'd want to contact a sales engineer (http://www.ni.com/contact.htm) to get all the details.

The general things you would not be able to take along with this upgrade are Macintosh-specific VIs (there are few) and any VIs with Macintosh-based C code interface nodes (CINs) that you programmed yourself. If you're not familiar with CINs, then you're prob
ably pretty safe.

Regards,
John Lum
National Instruments