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From: merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,u3b.tech,comp.sys.att
Subject: SCSI or ethernet via parallel port ?
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.035120.11117@iguana.uucp>
Date: 25 Jan 91 03:51:20 GMT
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[ forgive me if this concept has be shot to hell already ]

there exist on the market a number of "thingy"'s that attach to the parallel
port.

most of them are called printers.  8^)

but there are newer gizmos which can, with drivers under MS-DOS, adapt the
port into a SCSI controller or an ethernet NIC.

on the unix-pc/CT miniframe, you can write loadable device drivers.

could a driver be implemented to use one of these devices?

on another note.  could a device driver be written to do SLIP on the serial
port(s) and interface with the pty's?

just wondering.

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