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  1. Path: news.primenet.com!krishna
  2. From: Glenn Saunders <krishna@primenet.com>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: Parallel & Serial Chaining?
  5. Date: 6 Feb 1996 03:03:01 -0700
  6. Organization: Primenet (602)395-1010
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  10. X-Posted-By: krishna@usr3.primenet.com
  11.  
  12. The mortal John Rumm wrote:
  13. : Thats called IEEE-488 / GPIB - available as standard on all commodore PETs!!
  14.  
  15. Atari 8-bits SIO (serial) devices were all daisy chained and worked via 
  16. individual ID (including the printers too I believe).
  17.  
  18. These days, though, I guess SCSI is today what SIO used to be, but serial 
  19. and parallel ports remain, in a more brain-dead implementation.
  20.  
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