Re: Parallel and Serial Ports

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From: Michael Schuster
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 22:38

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In article <1992Apr7.004707.29179@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
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>Parallel ports are much faster than serial ports, which is why the
>external disk drive connects to the parallel port rather than the
>serial port.
>
I've noticed on the specs of the Trantor parallel port-to-SCSI adaptor that
writes (i.e. output from the parallel port) are twice as fast as reads
("input" via the parallel port). Does this mean the "input" is kludged?



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