der Mouse wrote: >>>> (2)(b) Because the same port is useful to plug in other things. >>> But hopefully no one will encourage that. >> Seconded. Most of the "other things" that were made to plug into the >> parallel port were made that way because, even though it worked like >> crap (if it worked at all), it was a lot cheaper than giving the >> device a real bus interface like, say, SCSI. > > Even if that's true of most of them (I'm not competent to comment on > that), how does that justify cutting off the rest? Oh, I didn't say it was. Just that a lot of those other devices were questionable ideas in the first place. :) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 alaric at caerllewys.net alaric at metrocast.net phil at co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage.