Vlad
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I was just browsing Newegg and was amused to find a PCI-e card that gave you 2 serial ports. Looks like despite being phased out from newer motherboards the serial port is still hanging on. Just found it interesting...
I was just browsing Newegg and was amused to find a PCI-e card that gave you 2 serial ports. Looks like despite being phased out from newer motherboards the serial port is still hanging on. Just found it interesting...
Serial is not dead yet, not by a long shot. There are a lot of industrial and military applications that require RS232, RS422 and RS485. And you can readily find multi-port PCI cards for modern machines.
I've thought about trying a Serial to USB but didn't know how well it would work out driver wise. I didn't know it'd be a HID device. I wonder how well it'd work out with Linux...
----Wow, I didn't know that. Never saw a PCI/PCI-e Serial card until I stumbled across that one. I knew they were still used heavily in industrial applications but just assumed that they came from who ever built the machines.
---------And Lava's been making cards for a LONG time. I have, I believe, 3 Lava 8-bit VGA cards from a good time ago.