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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Date: 18 Jul 92 17:59 MDT
- Subject: Re: Serial and Parallel interface ?????
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- Message-ID: <1992Jul18.135932.3904@qiclab.scn>
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- jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Doc) writes:
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- >tnixon@hayes.com writes:
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- >>Parallel communications sends several bits at a time. In the PC
- >>environment, such as on the printer port, eight bits are sent at
- >>once. There are eight separate wires for data transfer, plus at
- >>least a couple of others to indicate when data is ready and the
- >>acknowledge that the data has been accepted.
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- >To take the original question a step further, why cant a modem be
- >designed that uses the parallel port for increased throughput?
-
- Perhaps because the telephone line is *effectively* serial. It's
- a single wire pair. The signal can only have a single value at any point
- in time.
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- In the old days, some leased line modems increased speed by using
- *two* pairs of wires.
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