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From: Isaac_K_Rabinovitch@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Why no Parallels?
Message-ID: <3271@cup.portal.com>
Date: 17 Feb 88 04:57:38 GMT
References: <673@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <4292@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
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murillo@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo) writes:
->In article <673@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> landay@cory.Berkeley.EDU (James A. Landay)
->writes:
->>Is there a way to hook to PCs together via the parallel ports?
->
->Check out PC Magazine, January 12, 88 Vol. 7 Number 1.
->There is a whole section on data transfer programs that would meet
->your needs.  Not all support parallel file transfer though. Here
->are some that do:
->
->     Direc-link     (213)377-1640
->     Paranet        (613)236-1487 
->     File Shuttle   (800)663-8066
Thank you Mr. Murillo!  Plenty of people are going to check out your
info.

One thing I don't understand:  why don't more packages support parallel?
There are good reasons to prefer it over serial:  it's faster,
one is more likely to have a parallel channel free (every desktop add-on
board maker seems to like to throw them in, and laptop makers consider
them essential but serial channels an option).  Until now, I had assumed
that there was some factor I didn't understand that made that approach
impossible.

Isaac Rabinovitch
Disclaimer:  Just because I think you're wrong, doesn't
             mean I don't think you're a fun person!
:-)