Alternative IO cards

[Paul <paul.corner-at-tesco.net>]

Hi Folks

I recently acquired a PCI digital IO card - Basically three 8255 chips and a 
PCI bridge to give a total of 72 IO pins.

Is there much demand to write a driver to run stepper motors and bridgeportio 
all from the one card ?
With the pessimists forcasting the imminent death of both the parallel port 
and the ISA bus, it may be worth looking at alternatives. What is the 
majority opinion on this ?

Regards, Paul.


BTW. The card in question is an Amplicon PCI272.