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- From: John Rumm <john@intrnode.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Parallel & Serial Chaining?
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 96 23:37:55 GMT
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- Glenn Saunders (krishna@primenet.com) wrote:
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- : It's too bad that parallel devices can't daisy chain and have their own ID
- : that they and only they respond to. It's one of the archaicisms of
- : today's computing.
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- Thats called IEEE-488 / GPIB - available as standard on all commodore PETs!!
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- To be fair - lots of companies are developing high speed, daisy chainable,
- serial links like FireWire etc. These should make things much quicker
- and simpler.
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