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Outline.
The Professional-488 software system allows any PC with
an IEEE-488 interface to become an IEEE bus controller,
exercising complete control over a bus full of up to 14 IEEE
instruments. An easy to use, flexible, enhanced industry standard
control language addresses the IEEE devices and provides
complete instrumentation control. The heart of the Pro-488 is the
device driver software that loads automatically when your PC is
switched on. After that, your PC has access to an IEEE port in
the same way as the other resident ports LPT1 or COM1. The
Professional-488 Device driver makes full use of all the
advanced features of your PC. We believe that software sells
hardware and that is why we made Professional-488 the perfect
companion for PC ELITE IEEE and PC IEEE cards.
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The Professional-488 Environment.
Profession-488 is the ideal development environment for
IEEE based data acquisition and control. Pro-488 is more than
just an instrumentation shell, its a mature carefully thought out,
PC based implementation, of a superset of Hewlett Packard's
HPIB language. The commands and your programs read just like
plain English and so program development and maintenance time
are cut to an absolute minimum. Since your time is extremely
valuable we made Pro-488 code easy to write, simple to debug
and a pleasure to read. Pro-488 runs identically across the range
of DOS languages. The syntax, parameters and returns of the
Pro-488 system remain the same, independent of the language
that you are running. No extra language drivers or run time
modules are needed to implement a new language. So you can
use the IEEE system with the language of your choice. The bus
status string contains a wealth of information about the state of
the IEEE bus and is easily processed in any language. Pro-488 is
feature rich, with a wide range of commands, from the lowest
level, of individual line control, right up through single word
commands that perform or initiate whole sequences of bus
actions. Its IEEE-488 without the sweat!
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