> It occurred to me that this whole boring debate about parallel-port
> scanners and the lack of support may soon disappear as a result of USB
> picking up in popularity. Maybe we should focus on USB support? It
> seems to me that parallel port scanners don't work well even if they
> are supported. The reason for this is that parallel port scanners
> tend to waste all available CPU cycles on the scanner, effectively
> turning your nice & fast multi-user, multi-tasking machine into a
> crummy single-task machine. AFAIK, USB doesn't have any of these
> problems yet is much cheaper than a SCSI interface.
I do think there still must be USB hardware before we will be able to do
some programming. But I do agree that the effort in parallel scanners is
somehow too awesome to be justified.
Hugo.
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