Re: Parallellllll ports

[Michele Bini]

On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, James wrote:

> #include <OffTopic.h>
> 
> can a parallel port transmit data at 2.8 Mega bits per second? And if it can't,
No. (At least not common ones).

> is there some hole on the back of my pc that does [we have: serial ports,
> printer, joystick/midi and that's about it]
> 
Using the plip driver in a kernel module, I can reach up to 32 Kbytes/sec
during 
file transfers through nfs.

Serial ports are MUCH slower than printer ports (~4 Kb/s?).

What about USB ports?

-Michele