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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Brian Handy <handy@lambic.physics.montana.edu>
cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: gpib driver - does anybody use it?
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Judging by the traffic on it over the last year it's in use widely.


On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Brian Handy wrote:

> >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? 
> 
> I don't have one, but I know what these are.  It's an interface for
> talking to lab equipment like voltmeters, scanners, all sort of stuff.
> All this "stuff" of course has to have a GPIB interface as well, but it
> gets used a lot by those types of people.  If I worked in a lab, I'd
> almost assuredly be using the driver.  No idea if it works.
> 
> >Is there a good reason (or any reason at all) why we shouldn't just
> >bobbit it?
> 
> It kills me to watch this go, but the surest way to bring a maintainer out
> of the woodwork is to kill it.  :-)  If I still used this stuff, I think
> this would be a *great* project to call my own.  Deep sigh.  But it's all
> in the CVS tree, so if someone pops up, hey the stuff is still there for
> the resurrection.
> 
> 
> Brian
> 
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