20 Jul
2010
20 Jul
'10
10:50 a.m.
On 7/20/10 10:15 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Agree 100% here. For anything non-consumery, async serial is still
the mainstay, and likely always will be. I use serial ports all day,
every day when I wear either my embedded systems designer or network
engineer hats. The only time I generally don't use it is when I'm
wearing my programmer hat.
What's so hard about baud rates, stop bits, parity bits, and flow
control? I'll take that over the USB enumeration process any day. That
said, I am definitely a fan of USB, but when something's not working,
simpler is better, and USB is FAR from simple for anything but the most
pedestrian of consumer-level uses.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
On 7/19/10, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
wrote:
Only every week? Every DAY here. ;)
I am very happy to say that I have not used a
serial port for anything
in a good 2-3y now, and not for anything more than a very occasional
sync of my Psion 7book...
I use serial ports every week. I really hate
RS232. It is the most troublesome interface of any kind
on any computer I've ever used. I celebrate its disappearance with joy
and I hope never to have to use such a port again. All the crap with
baud rates, stop bits, parity bits, flow control and all that hateful
1960s-ish nonsense is just a fading memory now and I hope I never have
to refresh it.
It may be hateful 1960s nonsense, but if you know how it works,
presuming you have the ability to control all the parameters of one
end of a connection (software-controlled params, jumpers, straps,
solder bumps, etc), you can still take something made in 1968 and
attach it to something made in 2008.