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Topic: Serial Port

Related:
  Serial    Port  
  Serial Number    Port number  
  COM port    Port Authority  
  Ports of Call    Parallel Port  
  Serial Interface    USB port  
  IP port    Serial  

 
 
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Favorite possession(s):Apple Computer,  Linux box,  Xbox
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Dream job(s):Bus Driver
Favorite era(s):1700s
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"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands
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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

Configure serial ports easily, including modem and initialization strings.
I think serial ports in Linux default to pretty conservative values.
There is a bug in the drivers for some tablets that causes the drivers to become corrupt when GPL looks for serial ports on your computer.
Mike Enlow,
Internet Marketer

The serial ports that you may find will be ____________.
Jake Farley,
Truck Driver

Serial ports tend to be slower than parallel transmission, but can operate over long distances with few wires.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

Common serial ports are RS-232, but RS-422 or RS-485 ports are available using expansion cards or converters.
Two serial ports and one synchronous communications channel provide the connections to the RF modules.
It is clear that the need for GUI's and serial communications ports will be increasingly important in the international marketplace.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

There is a serial to USB conversion cable marketed towards those with no serial ports (mostly Mac users) but this is just a simple conversion and does not give the same speed a true USB to USB connection would give.
The controller is a hybrid solution that combines two independent SATA ports and one Ultra ATA port for support of up to two Serial and two Ultra ATA drives.
Serial ports Serial ports are RS-232 serial ports and any device which simulates one, either in hardware (such as internal modems) or in software (such as the ISDN driver.
 
 
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