Jay West wrote:
Pat wrote....
> Almost all the machines we have at work, which I admin, have
> RS-232 console ports....
Just try finding a laptop these days that has a serial
port. You won't
find much (if any). I daresay more than half the consumer grade PC's for
the home do not have serial ports on them either nowdays.
None of the recent desktops I've seen have one, but some of the most
recent Toshiba laptops do, interestingly. I almost bought one for that
very reason.
RS232 as far as a general purpose consumer interface
is dead.
True. Fortunately, the USB-to-RS232 adapters I've seen recently work
well, unlike some I saw a year or two ago.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York