Afaik there exists no BIOS call that makes use of the bidirectional
parallel port and my books which are also old show no such thing. I think
that the Windows API has a set of calls that deal with this, in
conjunction with some driver DLL or other, which is used for parallel port
connected external devices.

Peter

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