>Ok, I've tried various things, this is a crippled EPP apparently, so I'm
>giving up. Will use old uni-directional method using status port to input
>nibbles and ext. mux.
>
>On the same topic: Is there a PCI/parallel bridge chip ? Most
>specifically, I am looking (desperately) for one of those extra large
>one-in-all black multi-non-pinned monsters, that has 32 to 40 digital IO
>pins and an interrupt on change capability on at least some of them, and
>interfaces them to the PCI bus.
>
>I want no double buffering, no guaranteed synchronous update, no fan-out,
>just an 82C55 on steroids, and direct writes at bus speed, possibly
>supplied mounted on an evaluation board with PCI connector and bread-board
>area. A JTAG (or SPI) master integrated into this would be the topping on
>the cake. I don't even want switchable pins <G>, the SPI can stay there
>and waste 4 pins as far as I'm concerned. An EEPROM or serial number to
>make it possible to use more than 1 on the same main board would be nice
>but not obligatory.
>
>I have a strong feeling that if some semiconductor manufacturer or other
>would come up with such a board with a SCSI-type mini 50 pin connector on
>the bracket for IO, millions of hobbyists and design engineers would
>generate an enormous sigh of relief everywhere.
>
>I also suspect that it would be a fortnight's job for a VHDL artist using
>a canned PCI library module.
>
>End user price in the $20-30 area would be nice.
>
>Anything like this around ?
>
>(dreaming ?)
>
>        Peter
>