I worked on a project a little while back where I manually controlled the individual pins of the parallel port using "outb" and "inb" in c++. For my next project, I'd like to transition to the USB port (mostly because I like the readily available 5V supply... and those serial cables are big and clunky). I did a bit of research online and didn't find any references to specific port commands to manually control the USB pins.
Is there a fundamental difference between the old style parallel ports and the new USB ports that you can't actually control the USB pins yourself?
-Dan
Is there a fundamental difference between the old style parallel ports and the new USB ports that you can't actually control the USB pins yourself?
-Dan
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