2 Nov
2003
2 Nov
'03
12:46 a.m.
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Philip Pemberton wrote:
Can someone tell me what the 96LS488DC is? From what
I can tell, it's a
GPIB controller, whatever GPIB is. I'm still after a datasheet - nothing on
Google besides a Chipdir listing.
GPIB is the General Purpose Interface Bus. If
memory serves me right,
this is the same as HP's IEEE488 (HPIB) bus, which was meant to be a
simple bus useable to connect HP's test/measure equipment together
to controlling computers, for example. I believe the GPIB was a
somewhat more generalized description, but essentially the same
bus.
--fred (back to work on his barely on-topic VAX 3100-85 of 1993)