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2015-12-21 13:11:28

Bill Woodcock <woody(_at_)pch(_dot_)net> wrote:
    > Oh, and serial ports.  Those started out as DB-25, then DB-9, then
    > RJ-45, and now mini-USB, emulating serial ports.  People briefly tried
    > bluetooth emulating serial ports, but there were too many ways for that
    > to go wrong.

I learnt recently that the telco's have a term I'd never heard of before to
describe those serial ports: "craft terminals".

(They are immensively valuable when you need them, and very annoying in many
places to get approved by managers)


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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF(_at_)sandelman(_dot_)ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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