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Info-LabVIEW is an internet mailing list for the discussion of the use of National Instruments' LabVIEW package for Macintosh and Power Macintosh, all flavors of Windows, HP-UX, Sun SPARCstation and Concurrent Real-Time systems.

LabVIEW is a graphical software system for developing high-performance scientific and engineering applications. LabVIEW can acquire data and control devices via IEEE-488 (GPIB), RS-232/422 and modular (VXI or CAMAC) instruments as well as plug-in I/O boards.

LabVIEW programs, called "virtual instruments" (VIs), are created using icons instead of conventional, text-based code. A VI consists of a front panel and a block diagram. The front panel (with knobs, switches, graphs, and so on) is the user interface. The block diagram, which is the executable code, consists of icons that operate on data connected by wires that pass data between them.

The mailing list has been in continuous operation since February 14th (yes, Valentine's Day!) 1991. It's not run by National Instruments, but by users of LabVIEW, although the folks at NI are subscribed. This gives us a nice mix between informed technical content and the ability to air gripes in an open forum.

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