Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Mon, 26 Jan 1998 12:41:46 +0100

Bill Brown wrote:
> The second is the Hewlett-Packard E2050A "LAN-HPIB Gateway" which has had
> support written by Ben Franksen at BESSY.  I don't know if this has been
> folded into the "official" release, or even as there are plans to do so.
> (IMHO it probably should be, but it's not my call!)

When I talked to Marty Kraimer in Paris last year, he seemed quite
interested to do so. The subject was probably drowned by more important
business. I will send the source code to everyone (inside the EPICS
group) who can use it.

> I sort of "Alpha/Beta" tested it for Ben, and IMHO it's "the greatest thing
> since sliced bread," as far as GPIB support goes.  

Again, many thanks! (For both testing and the estimation!)

> Hmmm - I wonder what would be required to make this code run under EPICS/
> VxWorks on an Intel platform.

AFAIK all the VxWorks libraries are SW compatible on all hardware
platforms. The code should be _very_ easily portable since all i/o is
over the LAN (more specifically it is based on VxWorks' RPC library).

	Ben
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