Matt Zilmer wrote:
A somewhat useful answer is that many hams use downrev computers. This
seems to be because they spend a lot of $ on radio equipment.
It's also human scale technology. You can interface to it with simple
hardware, and sometimes don't even need software. Software to handle
simply asychrononous interfaces is trivial, even on bare hardware. That
makes it good for a market where people build their own equipment. (USB
2.0, in particular, needs very good RF layout for hardware.)
The lack of serial ports in modern systems is also becoming a problem
for people who want accurate time, because USB serial ports make a mess
of the timing of the data, and people running the Network Time Protocol
with GPS, etc., receivers, are generally advised to seek direct serial
ports.
The lack of lock in to operating systems which support the drivers has
also been mentioned.
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