On 12/5/06, Alan B. Pearce <A.B.Pearce@rl.ac.uk> wrote:
> >also there seem to be a lot of dongles for specialist software
> >that rely on having a paralell port.
>
> A lot of these are moving to USB dongles though.

Then there are quite some parallel port based JTAG debugger.
In front of me there is the TI MSP430 FET. There is a  USB version
as well but it is double the price of the parallel version.

The ARM Wiggler is based on parallel port. The USB counter part
is much more expensive.

Regards,
Xiaofan
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