From: Robert George (george_at_cs.nps.navy.mil)
Date: Thu Nov 17 1994 - 15:53:41 EST
> I asked this before, but now that we have lots of people with tech manuals
> on the list, somebody might have an answer. Parallel_1 is regular
> parallel, parallel_2 is EPP. Two questions: 1) Why does parallel_1 even
> exist? Parallel_2 does EPP or regular, making parallel_1 a crippled
> redundancy. b) What is parallel_3? Does this allow us to communicate with
> alien life forms and mac users? :)
Victor,
According to the Technical Reference, there is one EPP compatible
"parallel controller port" which is programmable as parallel port 1, 2, or 3.
These appear to be logical names, so I don't understand why port 1 or 3
would act differently than port 2.
Robert
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