Re: iic boot from serial port?

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:06:35 +0900, Paul Guertin <pg@sff.net> wrote:

>You can get bidirectional communication with a standard Grappler
>card (and, I imagine, many other cards) by using the printer status
>lines as input, as Paul said. These are lines normally used for things
>like "paper out", "printer ready" and so on. Of course, it means you
>have to make a special cable that will cross the right lines, and
>write your own low-level drivers.

Another question arises then.  Is there enough of these lines to allow
for 8 bit communications in both directions and still have at least
one line left over to signal valid data?  This means having to have 9
inputs and 9 outputs on the card.

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