> The bidirectional use is/was PL/IP, aka "laplink" connections. Yes, I 
> still have a machine I installed that way, and it will run 2.2.19 
> forever before I try it again. ;-)

PLIP/Laplink runs bidirectional on ordinary parallel ports. The
bidirectional part of parallel ports in "normal" modes is still used for
things like PnP detection of printer and drivers.
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