Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 11/15/2011 02:40 PM, Per Jessen pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Jim Henderson wrote:
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:33:16 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Any machine you would want to hook up a serial console to :-) Although the cable in question would not be really useful for that
- maybe as an extension.
Of course, that would imply the machine has a serial port on it to begin with - seems rarer and rarer these days.
On office desktops and consumer PCs they're definitely an endangered species, but e.g. HP Proliant servers still have them.
And there is a serial/usb dongle that will allow you to still usr serial devices.
Yeah, the lack of a serial port on laptops probably prompted development of those.
At least I have one that I may auction off sometime in the future. :-)
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