HOCUS would have been used to work with Quanterra Q330s and
Balers for bench testing like CHANGEO or POCUS. Management
decided to say "no" to buying (expensive) or
building (kinda easy) an Ethernet switch and/or a serial
interface whose ports could be programmatically turned on and
off. This was necessary because the Quanterra command language
was not generally set up for dealing with multiple units
connected at the same time through the CONSOLE ports, or
before their IP addresses were known and could be set. After
that decision I lost interest and moved on. We have wasted
probably untold 1000's of man-hours ever since having to move
communication cables from one unit to the next and manually
run tests one unit at a time. Shame.
This was a slightly beginning to work version that was
road-blocked by the decision. It had one bug. There was no
such thing as a Q300 (on the Send Config button).
This version was laid out to handle 20 DASs at a time, but the actual number would have been determined by the serial or Ethernet "box" that would have been used to communicate with the DASs. Just because computer things like powers of two it probably would have ended up being 16 or so.
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