24 Jul
2006
24 Jul
'06
10:42 a.m.
On 7/24/2006 at 9:59 AM Don Y wrote:
Yes, this agrees with my analysis: *if* I/O's in
ALL pc's are
throttled to that 8MHz bus rate (i.e. even on 3GHz machines!).
And, it also doesn't address how parallel ports work on *other*
machines without the ISA legacy "problem".
I did a little research on PCI parallel ports. The highest data rate
claimed on the ones I've seen is 5.5-6 MBps in EPP mode.
There's a slide show on 1284 that includes speed numbers on the Warp Nine
web site:
http://www.fapo.com/files/IC99.pdf
Cheers,
Chuck