1 General
1.1 Terminology
IEEE488: External Parallel Data Bus
GPIB: General Purpose Interface Bus, or General Purpose Instrumentation Bus
EOI: End Or Identify
Listener GPIB condition of the device’s ability to receive messages
Talker GPIB condition of the device’s ability to receive messages
LF: Line Feed
LAN: Local Area Network, Network Connection
TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol, used by the LAN
Subnet Contiguous partial network within a LAN network
Hostname Unique name of a computer in the network
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automatic IP address assignment
HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, Protocol for Websites
Socket Connection for exchanging data in networks and procedures
Network mask Bitmask for setting up subnets in a network
Gateway Protocol implementer for communicating via Internet
1.2 Other Terminology
nnn Floating point number, up to one decimal place, negative and positive
◦ e.g.: 0, 1, 0.0, 0.1, -100.5, 42.3
ppp Floating point number, up to one decimal place, only positive
◦ e.g.: 0, 1, 0.0, 0.1, 100.5, 42.3
iii Integernumber
◦ e.g.: 0, 1, 123, -456
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