3 Jun
2016
3 Jun
'16
9:28 a.m.
On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote:
One reason is that parallel port devices were
generally designed to work
along with other parallel peripherals on the same port, so they have to
watch their Ps and Qs. LL/Interlink use the port as dedicated, so no
such worry.
. . . and, it is using two computers.
It might take 10 minutes to transfer a file. If, instead, you copy
to a disk for 9 minutes on one computer, and then sneakernet that disk to
another computer, and read it for 9 minutes, which is faster?
But, what's the big hurry?
Remember when getting same day turn-around on batch processing jobs was an
improvement?