Hi Don,
Your statement that Motorola handled I/O well, but Intel
didn't, puzzles me.
Would you care to elaborate?
-Chuck Harris
On Fri, 3 May 2024 19:26:48 +0000 (UTC) "Don Bitters via groups.io"
<donbitters@...> wrote:
Way back when instrument control was the "Thing" in the
instrumentation world. The HP controllers were focused on I/O control
(Motorola based, PA RISC, etc.) (9825A, 9830A, 9845A, series
9000/200, 300, 500, 700, C110, C180, C270). PC based (Intel, etc.)
generally did not handle I/O well, at least for instrument control.
HP Basic was a great tool and generally established the market for
instrumentation control, especially when they gave it to the
marketplace.It evolved and then HP was splitting itself into Agilent
(instruments) and become a computer company (ies) and HP ported HP
Basic to HP-UX, then a little later dropped support for HP Basic.?HT
Basic created/ported HP Basic to the Intel platform and the rest is
history.Don Bitters
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