| 摘要 |
A cable assembly is formed with a plurality of multi-pin terminals attached to predetermined locations of a multi-strand cable where groups of strands thereof serve to interconnect predefined groups of pins of the plurality of terminals. Various groups of strands of the cable assembly provide a bus-like connection for the first terminal to be connected to a parallel port of a host computer, the second terminal to a peripheral device, and the third terminal to a printer. In the preferred embodiment compliant with the IEEE 1284 parallel interface, the bus-like connection provides access by all three terminals to the data lines of the parallel port, and provides access by the first and second terminals to the control/status lines of the parallel port, and provides access by the second and third terminals to the control/status lines generated by a pass-through port of the peripheral device. In this way, a minimum number of cables and terminals is needed.
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