Sunday 7 December 2014

LPT Ports

LPT Ports

LPT ports are use for parallel data communication. The name is derived from their original use with printers (LPT—line printer). The original IBM standard LPT port did not provide bi-directional communications (talk-back) and was designed solely for one-way data streams to a printer. IBM presents a preset combination of IRQ's and I/O addresses that are shows bellow. Note that IRQ-5 if present, it quickly become the favorite for devices like sound card and other add-on devices.
Port IO Address IRQ Number
LPT1 378 7
LPT2 278 5

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