53 years later, bus standard launched by HP in 1972 gets stable Linux driver — General Purpose Interface Bus has blistering 8 MB/s of bandwidth

After 53 years since its launch by HP in 1972, the General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB) has finally received stable drivers for Linux, with support set to be included in the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel release. The GPIB, which offers a bandwidth of 8 MB/s, was designed by HP to connect lab equipment to computers. The driver addition was highlighted by Greg Kroah-Hartman as a significant update for the Linux kernel, moving the gpib subsystem out of the staging tree. GPIB, also known as IEEE 488, supported up to 15 devices on a single bus with a data transfer rate of up to 8 MB/s, and its design was rugged and stackable.