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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: HP 9111A Graphics Tablet
Message-ID: <16976@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 89 20:59:31 GMT
References: <560@orange6.qtp.ufl.edu> <170005@hplsla.HP.COM> <672@madnix.UUCP>
Reply-To: kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk)
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
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In article <672@madnix.UUCP> perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz) writes:
>In article <170005@hplsla.HP.COM> tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns) writes:
>>How much interest is there in HP-IB for Amy?  Would it be worth some
>>of us who deal with HP-IB professionally coming up with a product or
>>a construction article?  What sort of software would have to be
>>provided to make it interesting?
>
>Why don't some of you who deal with HP-IB professionally come up with
>some high powered software for the hardware which already exists? 

Ok, I'm not high powered, but I write 'realtime' software on HP & PC
machines to access HPIB devices at usually higher rates than is
supported :-), but only for one or two GPIB devices at a time, and
always special-purpose software though.

I would be interested in an HP-IB software project though. (Maybe
something like LabVIEW (Ha). More likely, a combination project to
create/use GPIB and corresponding graphics libraries for 'typical' lab
applications.

Sure would be nice to take it further though.

>ASDG has been shipping a Twin-X based GPIB solution for about a year 
>now. The GPIB hardware is fully compliant with the latest specifications.
>
>If cost is an issue, I might point you towards the example of the SBX-Serial/2.
[...]
>
>-- 
>                        Perry Kivolowitz, ASDG Inc.

Does this mean that you would consider making a single-board GPIB
controller which would be cheaper and faster than the Twin-X based
counterpart or what?

BTW, a while back, I requested info on your Twin-X capabilities via net
mail but got no reply, do I need to send all inquiries via US land
mail?

Does your controller support high-speed DMA transfers?
What kind of software support is provided? (if any)
How do you support access to other iSBX boards? (I understood that
Twin-X was iSBX compatible, or the same thing).

Please respond via email, I'll respond with my mailing address for tech info.

Thanks,

Kent Polk