Experience with the use of the British Standard Interface in computer peripherals and communication systems

ABSTRACT

The new British Standard Specification⁽¹⁾ 4421 entitled “A Digital Input/Output Interface for Data Collection Systems” is gaining wide recognition in the United Kingdom and has been submitted to the International Standards Organisation for International appraisal.

Although the B.S. Interface has been described elsewhere ^(5)(6)(7) a brief outline is given here to facilitate the subsequent discussion of its applications to computer peripherals, small computers, and the NPL data network.

References

1. 1.B.S.4421: 1969 A digital input/output interface for data collection systems. British Standards Institution, Sales Branch, 101 Pentonville Road, London, N.1.
2. 2.Costrell, Louis. Standard nuclear instrument modules. United States Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C. 20545
3. 3.Scantlebury, R.A. A model for the local area of a data communication network - objectives and hardware organization. ACM Data Communications Symposium, Pine Mountain, Georgia, October 1969.
4. 4.Wilkinson, P.T. A model for the local area of a data communication network - software organization. ACM Data Communications Symposium, Pine Mountain, Georgia, October 1969
5. 5.Barber, D.L.A., Blake, D.V. and Scantlebury, R.A. Implementation of the British Standard Interface for data exchange between Sources and Acceptors of digital data. Colloque International sur la Téléinformatique, Paris, March 1969.
6. 6.Barber, D.L.A. and Blake, D.V. The implementation of the British Standard Interface at NPL. NPL Com.Sci. Report 38, May 1968.
7. 7.Barber, D.L.A., Scantlebury, R.A., and Bartlett, K.A. The use of the British Standard Interface with digital computers. NPL Com.Sci. Report T.M. 20, January 1969.
8. 8.Commité Consultatif International de Télégraphique et Téléphonique, Blue Book Vol. VIII, Data Transmission
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Index Terms

• General and reference

  • Document types

    • Computing standards, RFCs and guidelines

• Hardware

  • Communication hardware, interfaces and storage

• Networks