5 Jul
1999
5 Jul
'99
4:12 a.m.
I've written small code snippets which seem to suggest that software from
DOS can easily drive the ECP/EPP ports. I'd assume the same is true of USB,
though one would have to create or acquire it somehow. That would make it
quite task-specific.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Max Eskin <max82(a)surfree.com
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu Date: Monday, July
05, 1999 5:57 AM
Subject: Re: OT: A call to arms (sort of)
Power
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>>From what I understand, those will all be irrelevant by year's end, as
the
>evolving standard for PC2000 will have NO expansion
slots at all. There
are
already plenty
with no ISA slots. My GPIB hardware is NI, and I had to
build my own parallel I/O hardware.
Well, it's always possible to make an external USB->GPIB adapter. Of
course, you'd be forced to use an OS which supports USB, and that
eliminates DOS and various other small operating systems (which might be
preferrable in many situations).
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)
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