Review of the Status of the FASTBUS Standard Routine Specification

Within the next few months the FASTBUS Software Working group hopes to distribute the Specification for Standard Routines for FASTBUS. The draft specification will go to the members of the overseeing NIM committee for review. This paper presents the current status of the specification. It includes a list of the goals of the specification; some details of the concepts embedded in it; as well as an overview of the software implementations of the previously distributed draft versions of the specification.