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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