Nothing restricts the use of the ``Dashboard" application to astronomy
or to KTL systems.
Any keyword/control system with an API could use the dashboard code, by writing
a different Tcl extension and altering about 30 of the 12K lines of code in the
dashboard-II application. The ``trace" mechanism could substitute for the
monitor/callback mechanism, or polling could be implemented for a control system
with no monitor/broadcast facility. Dashboard is a shell, in other words, which
could be inhabited by applications other than KTL, just as the ``FITS keyword"
database is a shell which could be inhabited by other kinds of syntactic and
semantic information.