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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,u3b.tech,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: SCSI or ethernet via parallel port ?
Message-ID: <38458@cup.portal.com>
Date: 25 Jan 91 12:32:12 GMT
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merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) in <1991Jan25.035120.11117@iguana.uucp> writes:

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

Nope.  The 3B1/UNIXPC's parallel port is NOT a programmable I/O device with
data-direction registers; it is a printer port, period.

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com ]