Oh, they still work, but with the newer versions of windows, you need to
either go through a driver layer, or muck around with permissions.  Not
only that, but there are machines coming out that don't even have
parallel ports anymore. They're all USB or something like that.

I'm a retro kind of guy, and I sorely miss the days when you could
actually fully understand every piece of hardware and software. The IBM
XT service manual even came with source code for the BIOS.

Phillip (who used to design CP/M machines)


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[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Nixon
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 7:26 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: [EE] Parallel Port


Hi all,

Is anyone still using the PC parallel port for projects these days?

I could be wrong, but it seems they aren't as functional under Windows
as the old DOS ports were, as in fast continuous access.


regards

Tony

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