Subject: Re: lab equipment connected on HP-IB
To: Mike Ferrara <mikef@rtfm.sr.hp.com>
From: Wes Brown <wes@prozac.student.cwru.edu>
List: port-hp300
Date: 12/19/1996 16:43:16
> According to Mika Nystroem:
> I'm not sure if it does or not ... I'm just getting my first NetBSD
> machine up right now, but I have a couple of remarks for you to think about:
>
> If you don't want to run HPUX (personally, I like it), then you
> hava a couple of options for controlling instruments (disregarding
> MSDOS, and the like):
> 1) Purchase an HP E2050A LAN<->HPIB bridge. This is a really sweet little
> box about the size of two or three CD jewel cases stacked. It responds
> to the IEEE std RPC calls translating them to HPIB. The RPC interface
> is publicly avaialable as part of the VXI spec.
In case anyone is looking for more information about this.
http://www.hp.com/pressrel/mar95/prtm0960.html
Wes
---
Wes Brown
ewb4@po.cwru.edu wes@prozac.cwru.edu
http://prozac.cwru.edu/wes/About.me.html
KB8TGR