On Sunday March 08 1998 at 01:17, Hans Mangold wrote to Coridon Henshaw:
 CH>> They also have one big disadvantage: the parallel port does not carry a
 CH>> FIFO, meaning that it will generate up to sixteen times more interrupts
 CH>> at a given data rate when compared to a serial modem on a 16550.
 HM> You sure about that???  My LPT2 does indeed have a 83-byte FIFO.
I wouldn't be surprised if EPP and/or ECP are buffered, but a standard 
parallel port contains no buffering.
What kind of port hardware is it?
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