<hardware> An interface from a computer system where data is
transferred in or out in parallel, that is, on more than one
wire. A parallel port carries one bit on each wire thus
multiplying the transfer rate obtainable over a single wire.
There will usually be some control signals on the port as well
to say when data is ready to be sent or received. The commonest
kind of parallel port is a printer port, e.g. a Centronics port
which transfers eight bits at a time. Disks are also connected
via special parallel ports, e.g. SCSI or IDE. Parallel Haskell «
parallelism « Parallel Pascal « parallel port » Parallel
Presence Detect » parallel processing » parallel processor