[Gllug] So Intel removes serial ports

[David Irvine]

Simon Trimmer wrote:

 >On 4 Oct 2001, Xander D Harkness wrote:
 >
 >>How will I communicate with my servers?
 >>
 >>What will it do for terminal servers?
 >>
 >>What about logging into my servers using my palm?
 >>
 >>Oh I forgot, many of my servers are 4-5 years old - I have plenty of
 >>time to get a replacement :-)
 >>
 >>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/22034.html
 >>
 >
 >Indeed, the parallel/serial/ps2 ports on the IA64 machines I had 18 months
 >ago were on a "legacy IO board", so this isn't too much of a surprise. 
We'll
 >be able to buy io boards for machines if we need them (though tet 
pointed out
 >you might not have enough slots to plug one in...)
 >
 >As far as I remember there were some interesting problems with linking two
 >machines with USB, has anyone tried it?
 >
 >-Simon
 >Simon Trimmer <simon at urbanmyth.org>
 >
 >
If you have room, you can buy litterally stacks of io boards for next to
nothing  from junked low spec x86's  Don't know if you can squeeze em in
or not but they are fairly easy  to get a hold of.

D





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