Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!umd5!trantor.umd.edu!louie From: louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: serial vs. parallel, was:(Re: Amiga as workstation) Message-ID: <2708@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 11 May 88 04:26:40 GMT References: <3896@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1959@sugar.UUCP> <628@flatline.UUCP> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Reply-To: louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 25 Keywords: Now now, can't you look at the big picture? The advantages that I see for parallel printers over serial printers on the Amiga are: * No bogus XON/XOFF flow control to try to deal with. * It *really* is faster dumping bitmap graphics; at least with the hardware we have to work with on the stock amiga. * If I had a serial printer, I wouldn't have anywhere to plug in my modem! Actually, the only one which really bugs me is a standard, well supported way to to flow control. If we could standardize on CTS/RTS or *something* I'd be happy. As it is, I have an RS232 switch, with three different devices hooked up to it right now. And I still have to swap the parallel printer port between my NEC PC-PR105A printer and the Quadram Quadjet color printer from time to time. I need more (DMA driven) ports real bad! Louis A. Mamakos WA3YMH Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming