Re: (slightly OT:) Parallel port question

From: Spiro Trikaliotis (trik-news_at_gmx.de)
Date: 2003-10-21 17:16:31

Hello Groepaz,

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 07:15:14PM +0200, Groepaz wrote:

> honestly, i neither know nor do i care. (although i believe there's an
> 8255 on the lpt card of my xt)
> 
> what i know is that all pc-docs i have (admittedly not much) refer to it,
> and that programming it like these docs say always worked for me - across
> all and every pc i tried so far.

I know, this was exactly what I had seen on every docu I saw "these days".
Anyway, in the cbm4linux packages at 

   http://www.lb.shuttle.de/puffin/cbm4linux/cbm4linux-0.3.1.tar.gz

there is the document 

   cbm4linux-0.3.1/docs/misc/ibmlpt.txt

(the original locations referred to in that article seem not to work
anymore)

which tells us differently: That the original LPT was built discreetly
(74LS125, 74LS174, 74LS244, 74LS374)

Spiro.

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