On 2018-06-07, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: > > This depends on what you mean by "universal". It was intended to be a > protocol for computers to use to communicate with peripherals; > "universal" in this context was restricted to peripherals.
And to the planet earth rather than all the way to the furthest reaches of the cosmos and back as I doubt whether the folks living out by Kepler-16 have much use for them.