2 Apr
2003
2 Apr
'03
11:47 a.m.
At 04:42 PM 4/2/03 -0800, Grumpy Ol' Fred wrote:
Ramdisk and print buffer.
Joe
>
incompatible, and they had a giant surplus of serial (RS232 and current
> loop) cards that nobody wanted, so they provided a "FREE" serial card to
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Tony Duell wrote:
Why did 'mobody' want them? A serial port
is a very useful thing to have...
Because they occupied an entire slot (out of 5 on the PC), and other
companies sold "multifunction" cards that could use the same slot for
serial, parallel, clock, and memory. Most of those were marketed as SIX
functions - how many people remember what the other two functions were?