On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 09:43:52AM -0500 I heard the voice of R. Kevin Stover, and lo! it spake thus: > > Do you really want communications with your rig dependent on the > future whims of Microsoft and Apple?
And what about those of us who run neither? Problem**2. > Serial just plain works. This is the important point. RS-232 serial is *DEAD* simple. I'll bet there are people here on the list who've built stuff that does basic stuff over serial on a breadboard for burger-money prices. You just put bits in one end, it comes out the other, aside from baud rate there's no configuration, and there's hardware and drivers for any hardware/software combo built in the last 40 years. USB is a totally different world. It's not just a hose you can dump bits into one end and out the other. It's a whole higher level multi-point protocol. Now you need much more hardware and software on the radio side, and additional drivers/software on the computer side. And Ethernet is beyond that; I doubt anybody really wants a transceiver that works over _Ethernet_; they want one that works over TCP/IP (if you want it over Appletalk or IPX or DECnet, just raise your hand now and somebody will be around to smack you sillier momentarily ;). Now you need a whole IP stack too, plus whatever custom protocol you write on top for the radio control. Carambe! -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [email protected] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
