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From: 16012_3045@uwovax.uwo.ca (Paul Gomme)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: C. ITOH vs Epson printer
Message-ID: <3809.2514c431@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 18 Sep 89 14:32:16 GMT
References: <946NETOPRJW@NCSUVM> <25130607.21586@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Organization: Department of Economics, UWO, London, Ontario, Canada
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In article <25130607.21586@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
> In article <946NETOPRJW@NCSUVM> NETOPRJW@NCSUVM.BITNET writes:
> $       2. What's the advantage of serial printer vs parallel printer?
> 
>    As far as I'm concerned, absolutely none.  Obviously, the throughput of a
> serial printer will be less than that of a parallel one (how much less depends
> on the baud rate and, to a certain extent, on what you're printing).

Actually, there is one:  a serial printer can be located physically farther
from the system unit than a parallel printer can.
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