Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!netsys!ziggy!scotty
From: scotty@ziggy.UUCP (Scott Drysdale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IEEE-488 Question.
Message-ID: <160@ziggy.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 89 01:09:44 GMT
References: <2030146@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Reply-To: scotty@ziggy.UUCP (Scott Drysdale)
Organization: Un*x Link,Frederick Md.
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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?
>If this were used more commonly, then I would not have to get switch boxes,
>or change things around so much.
>Example -- here at work I have 4 100MB disks all plugged into one port.

HPIB on an amiga??!!  argh.  do SCSI.  much faster.  my experience with
HPIB is with HP64000's and an HP9000/350 machine which has it's hard drive
connected to the computer via HPIB.  we're told by a reliable source within
HP that the HPIB is the weak link in our file server, and that we should
have got a SCSI disk instead.  add to that the amount of fun & games
required to get two IEEE 488 devices which are more complex than a printer or
an oscilloscope to talk to each other, and i'd say no to HPIB.  the complexity
i have experienced is with my company's products (telecommunications
techniques corp - telecom line testers) being controlled by computers.
it's amazing how many calls we get per day about how to talk to the damned
thing with so-and-so's 488 controller.

>Thanks,
>
>Dave (Just wondering) S.

  --Scotty