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From: joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: MacKermit 0.8(33) - limitation: you can't use the printer-port
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 12:10:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 24 12:10:06 1986
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Summary: don't use printer port

In article <2988@ut-ngp.UUCP>, werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
> If the modem port is in use by a hard
> disk, ...  It does
> not permit the user to use the printer port instead.

It is not generally considered desireable to use the printer port
for a modem, particularly if you are using the (64kb) ROM-based serial
driver.  As I recall (I don't have the docs handy), the Mac will
save characters coming in on the modem port while disk i/o is in
progress, but won't do so for the printer port.

However, the "RAM serial drivers" (in ROM on the Mac Plus) support 
X-on/X-off so presumably they would tell your remote host to stop
shoving characters during a disk i/o.

My solution is to buy a SCSI hard disk or an Apple HD20.  Frankly, I 
think the people who bought and manufactured the early 3rd-party hard
disks got screwed.
-- 
	Joel West	 	(619) 457-9681
	CACI, Inc. Federal, 3344 N. Torrey Pines Ct., La Jolla, CA  92037
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