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From: aaron@madnix.UUCP (Aaron Avery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IEEE-488 Question.
Message-ID: <410@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 89 13:21:10 GMT
References: <2030146@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Reply-To: aaron@madnix.UUCP (Aaron Avery)
Organization: ASDG Incorporated
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In article <2030146@hpcilzb.HP.COM> daves@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Dave Scroggins) writes:
>How come the AMIGA, particularly the new ones, do not come with an
>IEEE-488 (HPIB) instead of or in addition to the Centronics ports?

I can't answer that. But it would certainly mean additional hardware (and
software, of course) to support it.
 
>Along these same lines, why do most periferals for the AMIGA not come
>with this interface option?

My suggestion is that SCSI seems to be replacing GPIB as a general-purpose high
speed 8-bit multiple node interface bus.
 
>If this were used more commonly, then I would not have to get switch boxes,
>or change things around so much.

Understandable.

I should mention that there is now a GPIB (a.k.a. HPIB; IEEE-488) interface
available for the Amiga. ASDG produces a GPIB module for the Twin-X general-
purpose I/O board.

-- 
Aaron Avery, ASDG Inc.         "A mime is a terrible thing to waste."
                                                             -- Robin Williams
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