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Serial Terminals

Authored by: tiger99 on Saturday, October 13 2012 @ 11:49 AM EDT

I have just had a look at my most recent quad core, and sure enough it has no visible serial port, because the back panel with the DE9(s) (or is it one serial and one parallel?) is still lying in the box, because I was lacking motivation to fit it. There is at least one, maybe two serial headers on the board.

If you are running a decent OS, of course, simple USB to serial converters work extremely well, however with a certain well-known broken OS they are a nightmare. But they are not useful at boot time, due to the complexity of USB, whereas the code to support a simple UART is trivial.

I have heard that developers actually use firewire nowadays to debug a crashed kernel, presumably it is simpler than USB?

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Firewire - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 14 2012 @ 03:33 AM EDT

Serial Terminals

Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, October 13 2012 @ 02:34 PM EDT

Yep, both serial and parallel ports have disappeared from computers. Also, the
ThinkPad I bought last year didn't have a modem either. ;-)

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