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From: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IEEE-488 Question.
Message-ID: <417@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 89 20:12:40 GMT
References: <2030146@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <160@ziggy.UUCP>
Reply-To: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz)
Organization: ASDG Incorporated
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In article <160@ziggy.UUCP> scotty@ziggy.UUCP (Scott Drysdale) writes:
>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?
>an oscilloscope to talk to each other, and i'd say no to HPIB.  the complexity

One point not addressed by this view is the one billion dollars each year spent
on instrumentation which comes with IEEE-488  interfaces.  Granted, GPIB may be
an aging specification but  it  is  found  much more commonly in the world than
SCSI. This situation will  remain  unchanged  for  at  least the next decade to
come. (I hope it's clear that I'm talking about instrumentation not disk drives
where, of course, SCSI dominates relative to IEEE-488).

We at ASDG felt it was essential for the Amiga to possess a  full  fledged GPIB
capability before it could  successfully  penetrate  the  laboratory or process
control  markets.  This  was the guiding force behind our development of a high
speed GPIB capability for the Amiga.




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