Re: PLIP between PC and Amiga

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From: Nick
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 18:18

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Bernard Armin Doehner (bad@wpi.edu) wrote:
: Joseph R.M. Zbiciak (im14u2c@millenium.texas.net) wrote:
: : Garrick Meeker (gurk@chickenboo.EBB.Eng.Sun.COM) wrote:

: Difference is that Amiga PLIP is 8 bit and Linux PLIP is 4 bit. A friend
: of mine is working on 8 bit PLIP support for Linux so that this may be
: possible. Hopefully he will upload it to sunsite when he is done.

What Joseph was talking about was 4 bit IO, since on a large percentage
of PC Paralell interfaces, the only input is the four status lines.

Recently I've seen interfaces on the PC have the option of input and
output on the paralell lines. Of course the amiga already has it. :)


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Subject: Re: PLIP between PC and Amiga
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