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Ben Myers
Obsolescence of the parallel port is a mindset of the computer industry, not me.
But I did not make that clear, did I? Every year, there are more and more
"legacy-free" computers which lack parallel, serial, and PS/2 ports, and have no
floppy drives.
Still, driving any sort of parallel device with a PCI-Express is a waste of
bandwidth because the parallel port hardware is a very small bottlenect compared
to PCI-E. This is true no matter what the expense of the parallel port printer.
Far better to simply get a PCI (not -Express) parallel card and get on with it.
Taking a cue from the legacy-free part of the computer biz, expensive bar code
and label printers are now more and more USB or sometimes are BOTH USB and
parallel with connectors for both... Ben Myers
But I did not make that clear, did I? Every year, there are more and more
"legacy-free" computers which lack parallel, serial, and PS/2 ports, and have no
floppy drives.
Still, driving any sort of parallel device with a PCI-Express is a waste of
bandwidth because the parallel port hardware is a very small bottlenect compared
to PCI-E. This is true no matter what the expense of the parallel port printer.
Far better to simply get a PCI (not -Express) parallel card and get on with it.
Taking a cue from the legacy-free part of the computer biz, expensive bar code
and label printers are now more and more USB or sometimes are BOTH USB and
parallel with connectors for both... Ben Myers