From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] CAN driver Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:52:20 +0000 References: <45DC1D05.1000206@domain.hid> <200702231231.08664.paul_c@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702231352.20211.paul_c@domain.hid> List-Id: Help regarding installation and common use of Xenomai List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: roland Tollenaar Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org Hi Roland On Friday 23 February 2007 13:25, roland Tollenaar wrote: > Does anyone know what the future of the parallel port is going to be? > Will it be disappearing from the PC,s in the near future or will it > still be around on new machines for a while? I think you'll find many commodity manufacturers already label the parallel port as "legacy".. In fact, a number of laptops are shipped without one! I don't think we will see the parallel port disappear for a few years, but the time will come - The alternatives are PCI cards (worth fitting one if only to take advantage of the faster IO read/writes), or using one of the low cost fpga cards with custom firmware. It has been muted in some quarters that the PCI bus will also disappear, so the fpga option may not sound as daft as it might first appear. Regards, Paul.