On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 01:01:10PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > That's PS/2, not RS232. > > True, true. And there seem to be two different sizes of those > round plugs in use. At least, I've seen adapters to connect between > the two sizes. > > My system isn't as obsolete as I thought. > > I'm still seeing ads for single-board computers where the console is > expected to be connected through a serial port. > > So maybe serial is still alive.
"still alive"? You mean, something like this: https://angband.pl/tmp/serials.jpg I assembled just a week ago. No one bothers making a single-board computer _without_ serial anymore. On x86, it's also a must if you do any sort of kernel debugging: netconsole doesn't work if you run a bridge, containers, VMs, your network card was designed during a different moon phase than the motherboard, or the planetary alignment wasn't right during their manufacture. And USB console (on the debuggee's side) is the first thing to go down during a crash/suspend/resume. But it's inadequate for connecting a mouse. Perhaps could be made adequate with some better protocol design, but this ship has sailed. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ Vat kind uf sufficiently advanced technology iz dis!? ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ -- Genghis Ht'rok'din ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
