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

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

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

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