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From: hessmann@r2d2.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: "Fast" Mode with parallel.device under OS 2.0 ??
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Date: 9 Apr 91 11:55:25 GMT
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Hi,

For nearly one year, Valentin Pepelea writes:

|Subject: Re: How fast is the parallel port?
|Date: 21 Jul 90 03:56:45 GMT 
|Reply-To: valentin@cbmvax (Valentin Pepelea)
|
|In article <31913@cup.portal.com> davids@cup.portal.com (David Kenneth
|Schreiber) writes:
|>
|>Can anyone tell me at what speed the Amiga's parallel port transfers
|>data (in particular, to a DeskJet+ printer)?
| 
|The 1.3 parallel device used to transfer about 6500 characters per second.
|In "serial baud" terms, that's 65000 baud. Not bad. I've rewritten the
|parallel device for 2.0, and on a '030 Amiga you can now send out well over
|100000 characters per second in its "fast" mode. Unfortunately this fast mode
|depends on the printer to assert the BUSY signal fast enough. Since there is
|a slight chance that an unusual printer out there does not assert the BUSY
|signal before the Amiga is ready to send the next character, the "slow" mode
|of the parallel device is set as default.

Fine, I *need* this "fast-mode".

How can I select this mode??
(via parallel.device or printer.device)
 
[...]

  Thanks,
    Georg.


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