From: Kristian Schilling <schilling@nanolytics.de>
  To  : rasmb@alpha.bbri.org
  Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 15:49:23 +0200

Re: Optima XLI and software compatibility

What Andy says is absolutely correct. Especially Microcal Origin tends to 
eat up system resources during long sessions and the Beckman analysis tools 
are based on Origin. We observe that after a long session inside Origin 
first plots, later labels and buttons are not displayed anymore. When TT 
fonts are displayed as system fonts this is a last indiciation that you are 
close to reaching ground zero. Terminating and relauching the application 
temporarily cures the problem but the resources are not returned to Windows 
so after some time the effect will reoccur, then mostly the system is so 
low it cannot even perform a warm reset.

We never do data analysis on the computer collecting data. You can create a 
permanent link to the external drive making it quite comfortable to work 
with the remote system, setting the connection as write protect will also 
prevent accidential deletion of data files while working on the data.

I guess Borries will be delighted once more to hear what problem Windows 
users are confronted with. I guess, Borries, that UNIX and Linux would not 
let these things happen?

Cheers,

Kristian





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