Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!princeton!mccc!pjh
From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why no Parallels?
Message-ID: <223@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 88 14:31:47 GMT
References: <673@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <4292@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <3271@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
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In article <3271@cup.portal.com> Isaac_K_Rabinovitch@cup.portal.com writes:
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|One thing I don't understand:  why don't more packages support parallel?

My understanding is that the PC's parallel port is set up by the BIOS to
be "output-only".  (Of course, port B on that 8255 *could* be
reprogrammed  to make it an input port, so I'm as puzzled as you!)
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