RE: [Sheflug] [OT, slightly] Parallel port network interfaces?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "David" == David Bottrill <david.bottrill [at] ntlworld.com> writes:

    David> Most NIC manufacturers made parallel port Ethernet
    David> Adapters,

Well, I'll be damned.  What a perverse concept ... is it likely that
an older parallel port would be fully IEEE-xxxx conformant so you
could actually get performance?

(In hardware, my flavor is 10-year-old single malt....  Don't know
about the blends or the real vintage stuff ;-)

Cool!

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