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From: sichermn@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: How fast is a parallel port?
Keywords: Centronics, Drivers, Hardware, Dataproducts,
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.211448.3016@beach.csulb.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 91 21:14:48 GMT
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  In this vein, does anyone know of any smart port cards, or DMA driven
parallel cards for the ISA bus that will offload the main processor of
this task. Seems like a waste to use 386 and 486 processors for this
kind of junk.

Jeff Sicherman