I doubt that RS323C serial ports will be forever banished because they are too ubiquitous. The built-in RS232C serial ports on PC hardware may go as may go built-in parallel ports. However, that does not mean one may not be able to get PCI boards to provide the same capability or possibly USB devices. Many printers already support USB. Most PCs today come with built- in modems and some with built-in network ports. I suspect that while the port characteristics may change, there will be support for those devices for years to come, as well as dialup capabilities via USB. On 5 Jun 2002 at 0:39, Mojojojo wrote:
Since last year, motherboard shiped with ISA slot is getting rare. I believe no motherboard shiped with ISA today.
Serial connection is on the to-do list to be banished to the dodo land too.
So, if this two gone, how can linux user can use dial-up to internet. Is this mean Linux growth will be ceased?
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