Blech? It's the same interface all the time, you just have to (I know
it's tough) set the interfaces the same on each end.
Or maybe we should require the manufacturers to support USB, Firewire,
IRDA, Bluetooth, ethernet, fast ethernet, gigabit ethernet, and
NetBIOS, Appletalk, NFS, Netware... Oh I forgot all the flavors of
token ring and all the rest of the network types and all the other
ways of coding the data packets and control packets. Wait a minute
HIPPI would be good, too. Really screams.
Not to sound like a Luddite, but no thanks, serial is everywhere, and
speed is not an issue here. I'd like my 5 year old Win98 laptop to be
able to control a rig, as well as my latest Unix server. With a
simple 3 wire cable and maybe a level converter.
USB, ether, etc. as additionally supported types, OK, I'll go for
that, but serial should be the base.
tom
wa2phw
--- In FT817@y..., "Gregory W. Ratcliff" <gratcliff@p...> wrote:
Serial ports! Blech. It's always the wrong type, wrong speed, wrong
format.
What are the alternatives?
USB is pretty neat and is being put everywhere
Firewire is faster and coming on motherboards
IRDA is growing by leaps and bounds and is rf quiet
Bluetooth is growing but noisy RF wise
Wireless Ethernet is $12.00 in hardware and pretty quiet
Hardwired Ethernet is $15.00 in hardware and quiet if precautions
are
followed.
Greg
nz8r
-----Original Message-----
From: wiese@j... [mailto:wiese@j...]
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 2:25 PM
To: FT817@y...
Subject: [FT817] Radios and USB (Univ Serial Bus) - No no no!
Folks...
Just had to add this as reading the comment (appended below) drove
me
outta lurk mode... No, no, no, no. Please, O Lord, no! No USB on
radios.
