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- From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Date: 18 Jul 92 17:18 MDT
- Subject: Re: Serial and Parallel interface ?????
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- Message-ID: <1992Jul18.131817.9040@usenet.ins>
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- Nf-From: skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu!wb8foz Jul 18 17:18:00 1992
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- Others said:
- # To take the original question a step further, why cant a modem be
- # designed that uses the parallel port for increased throughput?
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- No reason, really, except history.
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- The parallel port used on PeeSee's is called "Centronics" after the
- printer company that popularized it. Big Iron used far different
- parallel printer connection schemes. In addition, on the original
- PeeSee, a missing jumper made the parallel port 'write only' rather
- than bidirectional. So which standard are you going to choose?
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- In addition, for all its flaws, RS-232 (or what passes for it...)
- serial connections have a long history of connection modems and
- terminals together. So there was and is a large installed base
- of stuff out there.
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- We all *KNOW* that what we need on our modems is an Etherhose
- port, but that's a different story...;-}
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