roland Tollenaar wrote:
> hi Paul,
> 
> Thanks for the urls. They are very helpful.
> 
> 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?

Already vanished from laptops, will probably disappear from commodity
desktop hardware in the next years as well. But I guess industrial
boards will stick to it a bit longer.

USB has reached up, at least for lab scenarios (and your CAN dongle it
surely intended for such a use case). RT and USB is still an engineering
task to be finished. First approaches are there for Xenomai, but they
need stabilisation and interface standardisation.

Jan