Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rice!titan!phil From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: serial vs. parallel, was:(Re: Amiga as workstation) Summary: I'll settle this stupid argument once and for all Message-ID: <702@thalia.rice.edu> Date: 17 May 88 04:32:23 GMT References: <3896@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1959@sugar.UUCP> <628@flatline.UUCP> <5325@cup.portal.com> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Reply-To: phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Organization: Rice University, Houston Lines: 19 Why do we need a parallel port? For things that need a seriously high transfer rate. Do printers need a parallel port? Not usually---except maybe for laser printers and things that take whole bitmaps. So why can't we just do away with the port? Because then where would you plug in your DIGI-VIEW!?!?!? Huh? Seems to me that digitizers---sight and sound--- can really capitalize on the existence of the parallel port. [ Does Live! plug into the parallel port? I'm too lazy to dig up the advertising brochures.... ] As for the rest of this discussion: yes we need a multi-port serial card. yes we need more mouse and joystick ports. yes we need another disk drive. Why? because you can never have too many periphreals! :-) Everyone knows that all computer project expand to consume all available resources (it's a corollary to Murphy's law). William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University