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From: mph@rover.UUCP (Mark Huth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AppleTalk, Networking, Amigas and Offices
Keywords: Network speed 500KBaud
Message-ID: <774@rover.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 22:46:46 GMT
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Reply-To: mph@rover.UUCP (Mark Huth)
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In article <392@uvicctr.UUCP> sdean1@uvicctr.UUCP (Steven A. Dean) writes:
>BTW, does anyone know how fast data can be pushed through the parallel port

I've designed a hard disk controller that worked through the parallel
port and measured bursts of approx. 800k bytes per second - this was
using a 68010 with the transfer loop cached on the processor.  The
transfer is limited by the strobes on the PIA.

Mark Huth