Agilent Technologies HP 16500B Manual page 39

Introduction
This section describes the interface functions and some general
concepts of the HP-IB. In general, these functions are defined by
IEEE 488.1 (HP-IB bus standard). They deal with general bus
management issues, as well as messages which can be sent over the
bus as bus commands.
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