An I/O PC card, the PowerPort ($59) from Buffalo Products (Salem, OR) increases the printing speed of your parallel printer, such as the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4, to as fast as 150,000 characters per second. Compatible with all ISA-bus PCs running DOS or Windows, the PowerPort plugs into any 8- or 16-bit slot on your computer's motherboard; it can use the LPT1 or LPT2 port address.
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Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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