Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: The latest instance in the A20 farce | Date | Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:32:31 +0100 | From | Olaf Titz <> |
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> I also really, really, *REALLY* hate them for killing serial ports. It's > a Bad Idea[TM].
Why, it opens up the market for serial-ports-on-USB devices. HW manufactures can make significantly more money on that than on $7.95 ISA multi I/O cards[1] ;-)
Olaf
[1] and I still dislike those, because they are only useful with lots and lots of jumpers for which you always can't find the description... but RS232 ports _are_ necessary in the real world, and more often than you like you need more than 2 of them. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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