On Wed, 11 Dec 1996 11:48:18 -0700 
 mike@fast.cs.utah.edu (Mike Hibler) wrote:

 > Unless the HP-IB support has changed from 4.4, it probably won't work very
 > well for instrument control.  The HP-IB drivers in BSD were intended to
 > support the CS/80 disks, though it was also sufficient to use with an HP-IB
 > interface plotter.  I don't think the drivers support the full IEEE488
 > "command set" (if that is the appropriate phrase, I don't know much about
 > this) and there is no user interface to speak of.

No, that's correct... the hpib interface is basically the same as in
4.4BSD.

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