HP (Hewlett-Packard) Drive Network Card User Manual


 
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The instruments must provide the same behavior, at least with respect to the
calling program.
Meeting these requirements is necessary to achieve “100%” interchangeability.
However, if your application does not meet all of these requirements, in some
cases you may be able to add additional code to your program to handle the
differences between the instruments or drivers you are using and still achieve a
certain degree of interchangeability.
The images below depict the functionality of the IVI Configuration Server and
Configuration Store and COM Session Factory in their role of enabling
interchangeability among IVI-COM and IVI-C drivers.