22 Sep
2004
22 Sep
'04
6:43 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:27:37PM +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
Nor PCMCIA (_not_ CARDBUS - there _are_ USB CARDBUS cards). My old Dell LM
laptop was out in the cold with USB as well - it was running the latest
version of RedHat (maxed out to 72MB!), but no USB available.
Any x86 style
computer CAN have a usb port, and there are kits for other
I've never seen an ISA USB card... All my PCs have ISA slots only. Other machines have
Unibus, Qbus, BBC
1MHz bus/Torch X-bus, various custom I/O slots (like on th HP9830), HPIL,
PERQlink, etc. Just about all of those have RS232 (or compatible) ports,
I've nver seen USB for any of them
Very much agreed there. Few of my machines have PCI slots, nothing that
isn't Alpha or Pentium.
-ethan
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