53 years later, HP’s vintage bus standard finally works with Linux, giving modern users astonishing transfer speeds of 8MB/s.

• HP’s GPIB standard receives Linux support 53 years after its original release
• Legacy lab instruments can now seamlessly integrate with modern Linux distributions
• Interface maintains original 8MB/s bandwidth across multiple connected devices

A bus standard introduced by HP in 1972 finally has stable support for Linux drivers, more than fifty years after its initial release.

HP created the interface to connect laboratory instruments to computers, and it later became known as IEEE 488 after standardization in 1975.