"Unruh" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> USB only has one data line. It cannot "do" a DCD line except as another
> bit of serial data, interleaved with all the other serial data.
> Ie, you are not going to get any good signals for an "interrupt".
>
> You definitely need either a real serial port with a true hardware line,
> or a parallel port to get true interrupts.

Be that as it may, a GPS/PPS system working over USB provided better 
results (45 microseconds jitter) on my test PC than a 1Gb/s Ethernet card 
(110-140 microseconds jitter) on a 1Gb/s lightly loaded LAN talking to a 
stratum-1 server, so I would not say that USB is useless.

David 

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