Linux GPIB Drivers Declared Stable – 53 Years After HP Introduced the Bus (opens in new tab)

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19 pointslooofooo03mo ago4 comments

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Worth noting that GPIB is still very common in labs and present in modern lab equipment that's still in production. Tek's AFG31000 is one example but there's countless more.

Mil/gov customers are still die-hard GPIB users and that's a major sector for T&M sales.

guenthert3mo ago

Indeed. Keysight's top-of-the-line long-scale DMM, the 3458A, was redesigned (chiefly for RoHS compliance) in 2019 and the GPIB bus remains the only means to remote control that instrument.

KK7NIL3mo ago

To be fair, that's a small redesign of a 40 year old design (everything is still through hole, for example).

The AFG31k is a brand new design from the ground up and it still has GPIB! And it's far from an isolated case, GPIB has a strong network effect, pun intended.

vaxman3mo ago

But Linux doesn't run on a PET-2001

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KK7NIL3mo ago

Worth noting that GPIB is still very common in labs and present in modern lab equipment that's still in production. Tek's AFG31000 is one example but there's countless more.

Mil/gov customers are still die-hard GPIB users and that's a major sector for T&M sales.

guenthert3mo ago

Indeed. Keysight's top-of-the-line long-scale DMM, the 3458A, was redesigned (chiefly for RoHS compliance) in 2019 and the GPIB bus remains the only means to remote control that instrument.

KK7NIL3mo ago

To be fair, that's a small redesign of a 40 year old design (everything is still through hole, for example).

The AFG31k is a brand new design from the ground up and it still has GPIB! And it's far from an isolated case, GPIB has a strong network effect, pun intended.

vaxman3mo ago

But Linux doesn't run on a PET-2001

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse