On 2018-11-01 12:14, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > On 11/01/2018 06:09 AM, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote: >> We had those in every PC in the office. >> >> Made PCs suddenly useful ;-) > > Can I ask what you were doing that needed more than two serial ports? > Especially "every PC in the office".
We developed embedded systems, multiprocessor, and wrote software for them. None of them had ethernet, so plenty of serial lines were good to have for debugging, monitoring etc.
