[sane-devel] Re: sane-1.0.6 make-error concerning umax_pp - ongoing 8-(

[Erik Inge Bolsø]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Colin Walters wrote:
>Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de> writes:
>>> +/* FIXME: Is this really what we want?  I don't think other
>>> +   architectures have parallel ports... */
>>
>> If this is true, it would make life much easier.
>
>I really don't know.  Alpha hardware might have a parallel port, but
>other than that I can't really think of any...

Atari (linux/m68k, netbsd/atari), Amiga (linux/m68k, netbsd/amiga) both
builtin and addon cards, Archimedes (linux/arm), a few other ARM
machines, Sun Ultra/AX (linux/sparc64, solaris/sparc), HP's unix
workstations... (hpux)

... in general, most hardware platforms do have a parallel port available
somehow.

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