Re: parallel port using lots of CPU
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:13:05PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Monday 20 September 2004 17:07, Marc Wilson wrote:
>
> > Uh, that's a CUPS back-end, not the hardware directly. The port itself
> > cannot consume CPU. Well, it can, but not in the sense that you mean.
>
> In what way do *you* think it can consume CPU?
Well, if you feed a couple kA through the data lines, it'll probably
consume everything attached to the mobo :)
consume == destroy
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