Many, many enterprise telco devices, servers, and storage devices
require serial console access, at least initially during first
configuration.
Dell sells laptops with db9 serial ports still.
Matthew
On Nov 6, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Snyder, Mark (NGIT-CA) wrote:
If you have
something that requires serial ports, it too is obsolete.
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