Hans Mangold wrote in a message to Coridon Henshaw:
 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.
 HM> You sure about that???  My LPT2 does indeed have a 83-byte FIFO. 
Is that buffer implemented in the parallel port hardware or is it a software 
artifact?
Regards,
       David
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