Alan B. Pearce <A.B.Pearce@rl.ac.uk> wrote:
> > The FDTI chip normaly emulates a comport,
> 
> While I agree this is true for the FT232 serial chips, I am not sure about
> the FT245. I was assuming it looked like a parallel printer port to the OS.

No. A parallel port includes a standard set of handshaking lines, in
addition to the (sort of) bidirectional 8-bit data path. The FTDI chips,
whether they physically implement a parallel or a serial interface, support
only the bidirectional data stream. Therefore, even the 245 is more like a
serial port than a parallel port as far as Windows is concerned.

-- Dave Tweed
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