Bill in Co said:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: []
Serial: definitely still has applications in the communications arena
(which is what it was originally designed for).
Can you give some examples of where this might still be useful, and might be
missed? (just asking
(And if so, maybe it's something that can have
a "workaround" using USB ports instead, but that might be a mess or
impractical - I don't know).
Well, dialup MoDems (though I know you can get USB ones), and any
equipment that communicates that way - probably a lot in the ham radio
sphere, I'm out of touch there now. USB-to-serial adapters _probably_
have it all covered though.
Yeah, I think we usually have more than 2 USB ports nowadays, anyway. It
Certainly more than two! Though it continues to surprise/depress me at
the number of netbooks/laptops that still only have 3 or 4.
seems like USB has become the ubiquitous platform for almost everything
these days.
Indeed, and in most senses probably a good thing. It's just a little
intellectually unsatisfying to have to have adapters where one didn't
before, though, but in practice they are indeed mostly not needed.
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