Hello David!
14 Mar 98 23:23, David Bowerman wrote to Hans Mangold:
 DB> Hans Mangold wrote in a message to Coridon Henshaw:
 CH>> They also have one big disadvantage: the parallel port does not
 CH>> carry a FIFO, meaning that it will generate up to sixteen times
 CH>> more interrupts at a given data rate when compared to a serial
 CH>> modem on a 16550.
 HM>> You sure about that???  My LPT2 does indeed have a 83-byte FIFO.
 DB> Is that buffer implemented in the parallel port hardware or is it a
 DB> software artifact?
See my rather lengthy message to Coridon Henshaw; it's implemented in 
hardware; there is no software, no driver, nothing, required.  :-)
SIIG makes nice I/O cards! :-)))
Cheers, Hans
... 90% of the time I'm right, so why worry about the other 3% ?
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