15 Dec
2013
15 Dec
'13
2:33 p.m.
On Dec 15, 2013, at 5:10 PM, Mouse wrote:
Relevant only to people who confuse "parallel port" with "printer
interface".
Unfortunately, that's enough people that we (FSVO "we") end up losing
an extremely useful interface....
They offer full IEEE-1284 parallel ports, often register-compatible
with PC versions. However, they don't always show up in the
traditional PC I/O ranges, making them somewhat less compatible with
programs that expect them to be there. For example, I have a PCIe
serial/parallel port card that works fine, but for my Xeltek ROM
burner software, I have to run it in a VMWare instance with the
parallel port address emulated, because the software talks directly
to the hardware rather than using Windows APIs.
- Dave
> To bad the parallel port has also gone the way of
the serial port.
Well as most printers are USB or Network Attached [...] I know its not a huge number but E-Bay returns 86
hits for
PCI-Express Printer card, and there are a few Express Card adaptors
for Laptops.
But do they offer parallel ports, or only printer interfaces?