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Topic: Parallel Port

Related:
  Port    Parallel  
  Serial Port    Port number  
  COM port    Port Authority  
  Ports of Call    USB port  
  IP port    Port Angeles  
  Open ports    Port Elizabeth  

 
 
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Favorite possession(s):Apple Computer,  Linux box,  Windows computer
Interest(s):Computers
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"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup
 
 
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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

Parallel interfaces allow I/O data transfer of eight bits at a time to parallel ports on the microcontroller.
Unidirectional parallel ports can be made readable by reading data 4 bits at a time via the status port.
Parallel ports can transfer data eight bits (one byte) at a time.
Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

In parallel with this the Department would examine what can be done to strengthen provision of advice and guidance for those ports in difficulties and provide the Government with more effective powers to facilitate the winding up and closure of trust ports.
Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster

Parallel Ports - Two bottles of red wine.
Jake Farley,
Truck Driver

Serial ports tend to be slower than parallel transmission, but can operate over long distances with few wires.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

Additional access ports can be placed outside the prostate parallel to the neurovascular bundles to triangulate areas of extracapsular extension or seminal vesicle involvement.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

The parallel port version is for use with IBM compatible PCs, the SCSI version is for use with SCSI-enabled computers and the USB version is for use with PCs and the latest Apple computer models such as the G3, G4 and iMac.
The new enhanced parallel ports, EPP and ECP ports, have bidirectional data lines so that data can be read from a hard disk or a scanner connected to the PC.
The USB to parallel converter allows multiple products to be used on the same PC without adding extra cards, it also solves the problem of adding more parallel ports to laptops.
 
 
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