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Amazingly I was just thinking about the parallel port this morning. My first PC (a Toshiba T1850 notebook) only had a serial port and a parallel port. Wanting
by FullyFunctional 4y ago
Amazingly I was just thinking about the parallel port this morning. My first PC (a Toshiba T1850 notebook) only had a serial port and a parallel port. Wanting faster network performance inspired me to play with PLIP (parallel-port IP). PLIP only works in nibble-mode so I played with the bidirectional support and got it working. However, I didn't measure much improved performance and lost interest. Indeed, later EPP and ECP came around, but at the time I couldn't find any documentation. This article fill of lot of the gap and has some amazing backstories I never knew, very cool.
- TacticalCoder 4y agoMy first two networked Linux computers where my desktop (probably a 486) and a laptop, though the parallel port using PLIP. My desktop was much faster than the laptop so I'd just launch a X11 server on the laptop and then run everything on the desktop. By doing that my brother and I could both use the Internet (Netscape) at the same time, sharing our... 28 800 modem connection : ) Oh the memories.
- FullyFunctional 4y agoIt not too far from how I work today - I have all sorts of devices around the house that I use to ssh and tmux attach to my EPIC server; I’m logically running the same session for months, but the terminal changes several times a day. I don’t think any of the devices in use have a (parallel) printer port though.