Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!moray!mybest!bigtex!james
From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Using the printer port for input
Message-ID: <13060@bigtex.cactus.org>
Date: 22 Jan 89 05:39:28 GMT
References: <704@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <691@hgcvax.uucp> <274@laas.laas.fr> <485@octopus.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
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In <485@octopus.UUCP>, pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann) wrote:
> A couple of years ago I was interested in doing high-speed data transfer
> between PC's. [...]

> I had a set of test software running, and could do 70+KB/sec between two
> PC's... never got around to turning it into a product. I wonder if it was
> patentable?

Well, not any more.  You have to file those patent papers within a
year.

In any case, there is an excellent commercial product called FastWire
that does just this (it can also use one or more serial ports for
transfers).  It is so fast that we use it to make backups of entire
hard disks at a time: a 30meg partition goes in a few minutes.
-- 
James R. Van Artsdalen          james@bigtex.cactus.org   "Live Free or Die"
DCC Corporation     9505 Arboretum Blvd Austin TX 78759         512-338-8789