We expect to be a major reseller of HP's computers "and Sun's or others", if that's what it takes to compete. We're recreating the seed-corn to grow another $20 billion to 40 billion company.< Ned Barnholt, about Agilent Obviously, just becoming a "reseller" of PCs is not enough to start a great new T&M Company. What is needed is the design of very cost effective and high-performance peripherals for the PC platform. Medium-performance peripherals do exist today, but even these are far from being cost-effective. The two classical and general purpose instruments needed most are the GigaHertz DSO and the Arbitrary Function generator, the ARB. While the PC-Card DSO pictured above uses EQT sequential sampling, as all present multi GHz scopes do, a new DIS (Dual Incremental Sampling) method takes many samples per signal repetitions, just as Random Sampling does, but is even faster. This fast responds- time makes it a general-purpose scope, useful for all frequency ranges. A further advantage of the DIS concept is that DSOs with Bandwidth of up to 5 GHz can be designed on the PCMCIA platform with readily available chips, and with the new IndiumPhosphide chips as input devices, Bandwidth can go to 50 GHz while the power -consumption still remains within the constrains of the PCMCIA format. ------------------------ GO Specification --->