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Is the parallel port based on the 8255 Programmable Peripheral Interface?

April 26, 2017based interface parallel peripheral port Programmable

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Is the parallel port based on the 8255 Programmable Peripheral Interface?

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There’s no relation between the 8255 chip and the parallel port. The original IBM PC did contain an 8255, but it had nothing to do with the parallel-port circuits, which used ordinary logic gates and latches.