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<h1>Re: News from Minolta</h1>
<b>Jonathan Buzzard</b> (<a href="mailto:jab@hex.prestel.co.uk"><i>jab@hex.prestel.co.uk</i></a>)<br>
<i>Fri, 20 Nov 1998 00:20:16 +0000</i>
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<a href="mailto:johnsonm@redhat.com">johnsonm@redhat.com</a> said:<br>
<i>&gt; UMAX doesn't release programming documentation for their parallel port</i><br>
<i>&gt; scanners, but that's only becuase they think (doh!) that they have</i><br>
<i>&gt; made the parallel port do magic that no one else in the universe could</i><br>
<i>&gt; figure out.</i><br>
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Not quite, they feel they have developed a fancy ASIC for controlling<br>
scanners over the parallel port. The problem is that the only copy of<br>
the parallel port protocol is bound in with the ASIC design, which<br>
the do want to protect, they also appear to have licensed the ASIC<br>
design to other scanner manufactures.<br>
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Frankly anyone wanting to use an ASIC that only does SPP and EPP modes<br>
needs their heads examining. Yes that's right no ECP support and not<br>
even any PS/2 support.<br>
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JAB.<br>
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