> This converter uses an DB-9 based serial device, It's a trivial thing in one sense...but surely this should be DE-9. I've never seen a DB-9 and doubt they exist; what's commonly miscalled a DB-9 is actually a DE-9. The letter after the D indicates the shell size, and the DB shell is the 25-pin size. (The other sizes: DA is the 15-pin size used for peecee game ports and AUI Ethernet; DC is a 37-pin size that isn't used for much in my experience; DD is the three-row 50-pin size used for SCSI by the Sun-3s. I'm sure each has plenty of other uses, too. I don't know why the letters aren't in order; I speculate the DE size was an afterthought.)
Not that this is a reflection on you; it's a very common mistake - even many vendors of D-shell hardware make it, and I used to make it myself until I got the terminology straight in my head. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
