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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga as workstation
Message-ID: <492@sas.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 01:14:26 GMT
References: <466@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <863@gethen.UUCP> <391@brambo.UUCP> <40824UH2@PSUVM> <1903@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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In article <1903@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
|Personally I'd be happy to give up my parallel port for another serial port.
|Parallel printers are a historical dreg that has no technical justification.

What, huh??  I've never seen anything shove bits as fast over a serial line
as you can over a parallel line.  Try comparing the time to download fonts
to LaserJet II on parallel vs. serial (even at 19.2Kbaud) sometime, and see
if you don't want to keep your parallel port around when you get a laser 
printer.
-- 
                                                         --Brian.
(Brian T. Schellenberger)				 ...!mcnc!rti!sas!bts

. . . now at 2400 baud, so maybe I'll stop bothering to flame long includes.