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

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

A bus standard introduced by HP in 1972 has finally gained stable Linux driver support, 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.