ESRF 2nd generation beamline control 1995-1999

• VME + OS9 for input/output

• PC + Windows for detectors (mainly CCDs)

• 100 Mbit/s switched Ethernet

• SPEC and TACO device servers

• ProDC (for PX)

• ATM point-to-point for high bandwidth beamlines

• Central file server (1 Tbyte) + compute server (8 nodes)

• Observations

• • VME starts stagnating
  • Device servers on Windows
  • Data reduction done offline