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Scott S. Bertilson ssb at quest.UUCP
Sat Oct 14 07:51:23 AEST 1989


david at ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
>.....................................................  Will the parallel
>port on the 3b1 do both input and output?  

I wondered about something like this from the perspective of hooking
relays and sensors.  I discovered to my dismay that the UNIXpc doesn't
use a nice flexible parallel i/o chip, but rather a simple latch for
output and a couple of other bits of input to test for data strobe
and printer ready.  If you can be satisfied with just a few bits,
you might be able to write a replacement driver and use it, but
it doesn't look fun.
					Scott S. Bertilson
					ssb at quest.UUCP
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			scott at poincare.geom.umn.edu



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