19 Mar
2005
19 Mar
'05
7:59 p.m.
On 15/03/2005, at 10:31 AM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
Parallel port then. I'd add "Portable across multiple platforms" which
basically means "parport or nothing". Every desktop and laptop machine
I've
seen has had an IEEE-1284-compliant (or compliant to a reasonable
degree)
parallel port.
Well my preferred laptop (ie the one I spent my money on, rather than
my work one) doesn't have a parallel port. Of course, I can always use
a Linux box instead.
Additionally, aren't there issues with "modern" Windows operating
systems and parallel ports?
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