10 May
2007
10 May
'07
3:14 p.m.
On 10/05/2007 19:13, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I learned C on an 11/750 running 4.1BSD... "all
the world's a VAX"
really means something to me. It was, um, a secondary education when
I went from C programming on UNIX on a VAX to embedded C on a 68000
with our own home-rolled clib. Fortunately, I had plenty of M68K
assembler experience to make heads-or-tails of what was going on.
:-)
Yeah... I have yet to take the plunge and buy any USB
serial adapters
for just that reason - for me, they have to work with Windows
(laptops), Linux, _and_ Mac OS X, or I don't care if they are $2 or
$10 each... they aren't going to cut it.
If I find one that does, i'll let you know.
I'm faced with getting a new company-paid laptop
later this year. I'm
now trying to decide between "whatever hardware is being provided by
internal IT" and replacing Vista with RedHat Linux, or taking the
plunge and going with some form of Macbook. My job is 100% Linux, so
I'd _rather_ be running it on my desk, but given the stuff that's
available new as a "standard laptop", since they aren't hardware
compatible with what was available even 2 years ago (no
PCMCIA/Cardbus, no serial, no parallel, no PATA, no PS/2...), I might
as well get a Mac (I've already asked if I can get my old laptop back
- no answer yet).
This is getting way off-topic now, but FWIW a couple of our systems
guys, including one who's *really* into Linux, have Macbooks. In fact
that's how I know about some of the USB stuff not working. Just to temp
you in the other direction, one recently got a new dual-core Toshiba
laptop, which performs very well, and which I mention because it has a
real RS232 port on the back. OTOH, my USB-to-serial works fine on my
Vaio, and even sends breaks correctly (which I need for some of our
switches).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York