Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux IEEE-488 (GPIB) cards? | Date | Mon, 06 Jul 1998 20:39:32 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <35A15BC9.4D2ED043@tampabay.rr.com>, Lance Dillon writes: +----- | maybe its just a faulty memory here, but i think i remember the | commodore 64 having that same interface (IEEE-488)? +--->8
You remember correctly. In fact, every CBM machine except the Amiga used some form of it. (I *think* the Amiga didn't use it, but I could well be wrong on that point.)
| am i correctly remembering this? (its been a while since i did any | programming on one)....if so, why is it coming back? or, perhaps better, | why did it ever leave? +--->8
It never left; but CBM was the only company to design computers around it. Otherwise, it was used pretty much exclusively for laboratory test equipment. The reason being that, like SCSI, HPIB/GPIB/IEEE-488 requires "intelligent" peripherals which are more expensive than dumb ones that you can stick on a ST-506 or IDE or other interface that makes the main CPU do all the work. (Commodore used a cheapened-down version of IEEE-488; it wasn't quite compatible with the real thing, and had various problems due to the cheapening-down.)
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering carnegie mellon university (bsa@kf8nh is still valid.)
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