Label Maker User Manual
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
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