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- From: jboros@indirect.com (Jim Boros)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Parallel & Serial Chaining?
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 09:50:54 UNDEFINED
- Organization: Borotec
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- In article <4f6899$5iq@rapidnet.com> wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block) writes:
- >From: wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block)
- >Subject: Re: Parallel & Serial Chaining?
- >Date: 6 Feb 1996 00:44:25 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.
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- >That's what SCSI is: 8-bit, high-speed parallel with device IDs.
- >Unfortunately, it does add some overhead (i.e., cost), so Centronics
- >parallel still wins out for most printers.
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- IEEE-488, also called HP-IB or GP-IB is the same way, moderate to high speed
- 8 bit parallel interface. It is used mainly for test equipment and can handle
- 31 stations. Some earlier printers and scanners (Sharp comes to mind) used
- this, and there is at least one board for the Amiga to support this. There
- is an option for a 'broadcast' address if a device wants all others to listen.
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