On 09/05/2011 07:22 PM, Levi Pearson wrote: > On Sep 5, 2011 6:17 PM, "Michael Torrie" <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On a serious note, serial communications will likely never go away >> especially in embedded environments. > > Considering that USB is also serial communication, that's certainly true. > But just about every embedded board I work on comes with a USB dongle, so it > would make little difference if they were doing something besides rs232 > serial.
Well what I mean is that it's super simple to rig up a gpio port and some serial routines to output debugging information, etc. A serial usb thing would probably be overkill for such an adhoc need. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
