[Gllug] So Intel removes serial ports

[Richard Cohen]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, 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?

I've seen lots of reports of people doing networking over USB between a PC
and an iPAQ.  Never tried it, but it seems to work for them...

> -Simon
> Simon Trimmer <simon at urbanmyth.org>

Cheers
Richard


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