At 06:45 PM 5/6/2008, Eric Smith wrote:
I'm not finding fault in anything. I think John
had a legitimate
point that there would be a market for such a thing that "just worked",
and it would be a much bigger market than the stuff that you can
actually buy now. Unfortunately, I think it's impossible.
So what's on the list of things that go wrong, or just "not right"?
Hardware handshaking? Buffer overruns? Other timing issues?
All perfectly plausible to me, but then I ask if the same issues
aren't already present on PC USB-to-serial adapters or for that
matter aren't already present in Tony's example on classic hardware.
Tony's question seemed to me more about delivering a byte elsewhere
on a serial port, and not about specific machine-to-machine
and app-to-app compatibility quirks.
- John