Re: old X, new 1.4.1pre

["ali (Anders Lindgren)" <dat94ali%ludat.lth.se@localhost>]

On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> As Ali was quite astonished:

Yup, Silly old me thought this PLIP-thing was a standardized
platform-independent thing. :-) Thanks for your most informative
answer, it probably saved me both time and grief, and I even
got to learn something. :-)

> But the side effect is that Amiga-PLIP and intel-PLIP can not, 
> and never will!, interoperate. For hardware reasons. 

Most unfortunate. I suppose SLIP is what I have left then.

> (Of course it should be possible to write a Amiga PLIP for the modern PC 
> printer ports (ECP), which are bidirectional. But this would be different
> from Intel PLIP.)

Hrmm I don't know anything about PC hardware and all I know about ECP
is the name. But a bidirectional PLIP-interface for Amigas could
be worth looking into. I have no idea how complicated such a driver
would be, never having written any driver or kernel code and all,
but I'll have a look and see if it's anything I can do.

> If you want to write any of this, feel free.

I'd like to at least investigate it on the amiga part. Any pointers
to how a kernel interface driver is written floating around out
there?

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