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- From: peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel)
- Subject: Re: Parallel & Serial Chaining?
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
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- Message-ID: <peterk.0ktm@combo.ganesha.com>
- Date: 14 Feb 96 22:00:01 MEZ
- Organization: Private Site
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- In article <jboros.42.001EA04B@indirect.com> jboros@indirect.com (Jim Boros) writes:
- >In article <4f6899$5iq@rapidnet.com> wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block) writes:
- >>From: wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block)
- >>Glenn Saunders (krishna@primenet.com) wrote:
- >
- >>: It's too bad that parallel devices can't daisy chain and have their own ID
- >>: that they and only they respond to.
- >
- >>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.
- >
- > 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,
-
- Cough, you forget the most prominent example: The early Commodore machines
- from the PET 2001 to the CBM 8296 used the IEEE bus for their peripherals
- and connected floppy drives like CBM 4040 or CBM 8250 and printers like
- the CBM 8024 or the CBM 8028 to it. Also the VIC 20 and C 64 had a serial
- variant of the IEEE bus which also could get dasy chained.
-
- The next generation sounds like a new standard called FireWire...
-
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