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STABILITY PROBLEMS.  FINALLY, SOME MODELS BECAME AVAILABLE AT A LOW OR
MODERATE COST BY SACRIFICING PERFORMANCE IN THE AREAS JUST LISTED AS
PROBLEMS.  HOMEBREWED MODELS REQUIRING SELECTED PARTS OFTEN APPEARED AS AN
EXERCISE IN ART RATHER THAN ELECTRONIC DESIGN.  IN THIS REVIEW, I LOOK AT
FIVE DIFFERENT SIGNAL GENERATORS.  THERE ARE MAJOR DIFFERENCES IN THE
DESIGN AND RESULTING CAPABILITIES BETWEEN TODAYS MODELS AND THOSE OF
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, BEFORE THE AVAILABILITY OF DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
AND MICROPROCESSORS.  DIGITAL SYNTHESIS RATHER THAN BEING CONCERNED WITH
INDUCTANCE TO CAPACITANCE RATIO AND THE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT OF
CAPACITORS, MOST GENERATOR MANUFACTURERS TODAY LOOK AT A REPETITIVE
WAVEFORM AS A SET OF POINTS.  EACH POINT HAS AN AMPLITUDE, AND THE MORE
POINTS READ AND CONVERT TO AN ANALOG VOLTAGE OR DIGITAL WAVEFORM PER
SECOND, THE SMOOTHER THE OUTPUT WAVEFORM.  SELECTING A WAVEFORM TO GENERATE
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