Linux GPIB Drivers Declared Stable – 53 Years After HP Introduced the Bus

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Comment by KK7NIL 5 hours 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.

Comment by guenthert 2 hours 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.

Comment by KK7NIL 1 hour 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.

Comment by vaxman 2 hours ago

But Linux doesn't run on a PET-2001