Hello Coridon!
05 Mar 98 13:43, Coridon Henshaw wrote to Rick Collins:
 JR>>> we are BANDWITH Hungrey in this country...we can't have anything
 JR>>> fast enought, so if this alone was something proprietary or not
 JR>>> WORKED,
 CH> [...]
 RC>> You're getting all wound up about nothing at all.  Parallel port
 RC>> modems offer no particular advantage over regular modems in
 RC>> throughput or anything else.
 CH> They also have one big disadvantage: the parallel port does not carry
 CH> a FIFO, meaning that it will generate up to sixteen times more
 CH> interrupts at a given data rate when compared to a serial modem on a
 CH> 16550.
You sure about that???  My LPT2 does indeed have a 83-byte FIFO.
Cheers, Hans
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