From: Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The latest instance in the A20 farce
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:32:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14Gf24-0002PZ-00@g212.hadiko.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D5E932F578EBD111AC3F00A0C96B1E6F07DBDEF6@orsmsx31.jf.intel.com> <3A5CF9C2.CE5EFF42@transmeta.com>
> I also really, really, *REALLY* hate them for killing serial ports. It's
> a Bad Idea[TM].
Why, it opens up the market for serial-ports-on-USB devices. HW
manufactures can make significantly more money on that than on $7.95
ISA multi I/O cards[1] ;-)
Olaf
[1] and I still dislike those, because they are only useful with lots
and lots of jumpers for which you always can't find the description...
but RS232 ports _are_ necessary in the real world, and more often than
you like you need more than 2 of them.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-11 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-10 23:56 Dunlap, Randy
2001-01-11 0:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-01-11 10:32 ` Olaf Titz [this message]
2001-01-15 17:24 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-01-15 17:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-01-15 19:30 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-01-15 20:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-01-18 12:21 ` Gerhard Mack
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2001-01-11 1:43 Dunlap, Randy
2001-01-11 1:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-12-06 23:55 H. Peter Anvin
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