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Date:      Mon, 08 Feb 1999 16:08:40 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it? 
Message-ID:  <199902090008.QAA01580@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "09 Feb 1999 00:29:07 %2B0100." <863e4g4gqk.fsf@niobe.ewox.org> 

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> I stumbled upon the (undocumented) gpib driver today - apparently for
> the "National Instruments AT-GPIB and AT-GPIB/TNT board", according to
> LINT. Apart from staticization sweeps, -Wall fixes and the like,
> nobody's touched it since 1995. Does anybody have an AT-GPIB board, or
> even know what it is? Does the driver actually work? Is there a good
> reason (or any reason at all) why we shouldn't just bobbit it?

Yes, Yes, Yes, not yet, as the replacement's not ready.

John Galbraith <john@ece.arizona.edu> was working on a replacement; I 
haven't heard from him for a while now, but I know he had some very 
happy beta-testers in the field.

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\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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