Sounds like a great idea as I love GPIB/HPIB (memories) sigh !! :-) There is so much gear out there that uses this and for embedded linux it could open many possibilites (anybody remeber the commodore machines or the HP/80)
----- Original Message ----- From: "kons Richard Bown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:20 PM Subject: [Cooker] Suggestions for upcoming Mandrake > What I would like to see is support for GPIB IEE488, this has a real > foot hold on MS. > At the moment apps are high cost and limited to a few companies. > There was some interest and some drivers written for 2.0 kernels by some > Germans, but that seems to have died. > Its something which would push linux out of the user market and into the > industrial markkey in a big way. > All the manufacturers of electronic equipment use GPIB for controlling > the test equipment > -- > Its dominated by companies like National Instruments with their Labview > s/w and Agilent with HPVEE. > > Maybe one day :) > Richard Bown > Ericsson Microwave Systems AB > SE-431 84 M�lndal > e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > tel +46 31 74 72422 > mobile +46 7098 72422 >
