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Chapter 1 Required Configuration, Installation, and Upgrade Information
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National Instruments Corporation 1-3 LabVIEW 5.1 Addendum
Power Macintosh Distributed on CD.
LabVIEW requires
System 7 or 8.
You need a minimum of
24 MB of RAM and at least
100 MB of disk storage
space for the minimal
installation of LabVIEW
or 120 MB for the full
installation.
National Instruments recommends that you
have at least 32 MB of RAM. You might
need more memory, depending on the size of
the application you design in LabVIEW and
the amount of data that your application
manipulates.
For more accurate timing, install the Apple
QuickTime extension. When you use
QuickTime, timing accuracy should increase
from 16.6 ms resolution to approximately
1 ms resolution. System response varies
depending on background applications,
other extensions, networking activity, and
disk caching.
All UNIX Versions LabVIEW requires an X
Window System server,
such as OpenWindows 3.x,
HP-VUE, or X11R6.
You need a minimum of
32 MB of RAM with 32 MB
of swap space storage.
You need a minimum of
65 MB of disk storage space
for the entire LabVIEW
package.
LabVIEW uses a directory for storing
temporary files. Some of the temporary files
are large, so keep several megabytes of disk
space available for this temporary directory.
The default for the temporary directory is
/tmp. You can change the temporary
directory by selecting Edit»Preferences....
If LabVIEW aborts unexpectedly, it might
leave files behind in the temporary directory.
Remove old files occasionally to avoid
depleting your disk space.
To save space, install only the VIs you plan
to use.
LabVIEW does not require a specific
graphical user interface (GUI) such as Motif
or OpenLook, because LabVIEW uses
Xlib
to create its own GUI.
Sun Distributed on CD.
LabVIEW runs on
SPARCstations with
Solaris 2.4 or later.
Table 1-1. Installation Requirements (Continued)
Platform
Media and System
Requirements
Important Notes