"Peter Brown" <peterbrown10_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> It looks as though the general form of the commands is very similar to CS80
> format but the commands themselves are different - I wonder why HP did
> this?
Amigo was the project name for the computer sold as the HP 300 (not
9000 Series 300). I believe it was the first cut at designing a
general protocol for communicating with storage (and maybe other)
devices over HP-IB, and I think the name got stuck on the protocol
as well.
CS/80 came later, and I think it was informed somewhat by lessons
learned from the HP 300 experience.
And I think SS/80 was a sort of subset of CS/80 for lower-end storage
devices.
There was another protocol, CIPER, that was used for communicating
with printers over HP-IB. At least that's what I remember from working
on HP3000s in the 1980s.
-Frank McConnell
Received on Sun May 04 2003 - 15:27:01 BST