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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers
Subject: Re: How fast is a parallel port?
Keywords: Centronics, Drivers, Hardware, Dataproducts,
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Date: 15 Mar 91 15:47:20 GMT
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In article <9103132036.AA25596@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> wcs@erebus.att.com (William Clare Stewart) writes:
>I'm trying to find out how to connect big laser printers (50-100ppm)
>to normal computers, in particular to 386/486 boxes running UNIX.

>Are there any parallel port boards out there with hardware support
>and/or DMA?  It wouldn't take much to do some simple buffering.

The AT&T IPC802 board has 8 serial/2 parallel ports - I'm not sure
about the buffering scheme but it requires much less CPU to
drive it than the motherboard parallel port.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us