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<title>sane-devel: Re: USB scanners?</title>
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<h1>Re: USB scanners?</h1>
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<b>Hugo van der Kooij</b> (<a href="mailto:hvdkooij@caiw.nl"><i>hvdkooij@caiw.nl</i></a>)<br>
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<i>Wed, 2 Dec 1998 08:07:42 +0100 (CET)</i>
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<li> <b>Next message:</b> <a href="0008.html">Jon Knight: "Re: Genius scanners"</a>
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<li> <b>Previous message:</b> <a href="0006.html">J. Rhett Aultman: "Re: USB scanners?"</a>
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<li> <b>In reply to:</b> <a href="0005.html">David Mosberger-Tang: "USB scanners?"</a>
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On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:<br>
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<i>> It occurred to me that this whole boring debate about parallel-port</i><br>
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<i>> scanners and the lack of support may soon disappear as a result of USB</i><br>
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<i>> picking up in popularity. Maybe we should focus on USB support? It</i><br>
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<i>> seems to me that parallel port scanners don't work well even if they</i><br>
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<i>> are supported. The reason for this is that parallel port scanners</i><br>
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<i>> tend to waste all available CPU cycles on the scanner, effectively</i><br>
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<i>> turning your nice & fast multi-user, multi-tasking machine into a</i><br>
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<i>> crummy single-task machine. AFAIK, USB doesn't have any of these</i><br>
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<i>> problems yet is much cheaper than a SCSI interface.</i><br>
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I do think there still must be USB hardware before we will be able to do<br>
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some programming. But I do agree that the effort in parallel scanners is<br>
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somehow too awesome to be justified.<br>
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Hugo.<br>
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+------------------------+------------------------------+<br>
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<i> | Hugo van der Kooij | <a href="mailto:Hugo.van.der.Kooij@caiw.nl">Hugo.van.der.Kooij@caiw.nl</a> |</i><br>
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<i> | Oranje Nassaustraat 16 | <a href="http://www.caiw.nl/~hvdkooij">http://www.caiw.nl/~hvdkooij</a> |</i><br>
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<i> | 3155 VJ Maasland | (De man met de rode hoed) |</i><br>
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(Mitch Radcliffe)<br>
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<li> <b>Next message:</b> <a href="0008.html">Jon Knight: "Re: Genius scanners"</a>
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<li> <b>Previous message:</b> <a href="0006.html">J. Rhett Aultman: "Re: USB scanners?"</a>
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<li> <b>In reply to:</b> <a href="0005.html">David Mosberger-Tang: "USB scanners?"</a>
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<li> <b>Next in thread:</b> <a href="0013.html">Matto Marjanovic: "Re: USB scanners?"</a>
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