On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:23:11AM -0600, Peter A. Eisch wrote:
>
> Pretty sure the hardware in the macppc machines is largely the same
> stuff that Sun ships (um, or maybe I mean Digital? don't recall), so
> I *doubt* it's a hardware thing unless it's the bus. The chipset,
> and this is still from memory so correct me if I'm wrong, is one of
> the more robust and reliable ones out there for its time.

They both used the chip too.

> (One of the things to wonder about is how different Apple made the
> "printer" and "modem" ports... I know that I ran into some
> circumstances where they didn't quite do the same thing under Mac
> OS, but it was years ago and on a mac68k.)

The main difference I remember is that the modem port supports using an
external clock that the printer port doesn't. So the modem port can use
two external clocks, while the printer port can use one.

Take care,

Bill