On Wednesday 05 June 2002 00:51, Jerry Feldman wrote:
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.
There were a PC called legacy free that doesn't have serial/pararel & ISA slot at all. But they have PCI winmodem. and I bought a notebook that doesn't have 'legacy' serial & doesn't have 'legacy' PCMCIA. (http://www.ecs.com.tw). It has a built in winmodem, but I intend to use this notebook with SuSE Linux. This notebook is sold without operating system.