James wrote:
> can a parallel port transmit data at 2.8 Mega bits per second?
The PLIP mini-howto says 40 Kbytes/sec (== 320 Kbits/sec).
> And if it can't, is there some hole on the back of my pc that does
> [we have: serial ports, printer, joystick/midi and that's about it]
None of these will do 2.8Mbps, although a video card will. You would
need to be able to set the sync periods to zero, though.
> (to sort of bring it back on topic)
>
> if it can, i need to make it transmit at that speed, no faster, no slower,
> sustained transfer at 2.8Mb/s (and the device that's being sent to cannot
> communicate the other way, back to my pc).
Hmm. That's probably too slow to be able to use a video card.
> (and now a bit so off topic it's actually on-topic!)
>
> anyone know where i can get information about the S/P-DIF format that MiniDisc
> uses for transmitting Digital Audio? (anyone guess what i'm trying to do...)
> some url of a big data sheet explaining what and how it works would be nice.
No idea.
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