RE: Cheap link (was: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?)

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 28-Aug-99 Greg Lehey wrote:
>  So what's wrong with PLIP?  Last time I used it, I was getting about
>  50 kB/s out of it.

PLIP has a terrible CPU/speed ratio.. You have to busy wait while bashing the
parallel port which is just yech :(

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