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In Article <2e5ffc07@<chris.27ve@trans.xs4all.nl>>, wrote Chris Dee
<chris@trans.xs4all.nl>:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering if it's possible to connect an Amiga to a PC (running
> Linux) through the parallel port. I was thinking of PLIP, but I can't
> seem to find a compatible PLIP driver.
>
> Does anybody know the solution?

I tried this some weeks ago with OS/2. It is not possible for some reasons:

The hardware protocoll is different: Amiga is 8bit-parallel with 2 hand-
shake lines (NAK and another one). The parallel network driver for OS/2
does support 8bit-parallel, too, if the port is bi-directional (which is
rarely the case with PCs), but even then it uses 4 handshake lines. Two
of them do not exist on the Amiga (actually, they are merged with other
signals). Perhaps a special PLIP driver for the Amiga could handle this,
but it does not exist.

Another reason why I`ve given up on this is the fact that the PLIP driver
for the PC consumes about 50% CPU-Time on my P90 even if it`s idle ! This
is, of course, not acceptable.

I`m looking for a cheap ethernet board for the Amiga now...

  -Joachim