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Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 12:31 PM Peter Suetterlin <pit@astro.su.se> wrote:
(I ran across it because wine automatically sets links in ~/.wine/dosdevices/ for serial hardware. So I end up with com1-com34, where com33 and com34 are the actually useful ones, being the ttyUSB? units almost anyone likely uses nowadays...)
Except for those using GPS units that provide a PPS signal. I use this to be a stratum 1 time source. Of course, I only have one of these. And yes, this is on a desktop system. Our use is perhaps unique.
Yes, but that's one port, not 32, is it?
I agree that serial ports are rare. But not totally obsolete!
Definitely not, and I highly appreciated my old laptop (Samsung P560) that did have a real serial port. We use serial a lot, but even the crasiest machine (central control hub for many of the telescope devices) only has 20 of them... So I mostly wondered who (and why) changed the value to 32 from the (AFAIK) default 4.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org