Todd Walton wrote:
On 8/8/06, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I probably don't own a computer with a COM port anymore unless the modem
still qualifies (but it could be USB).


I thought COM ports were a Windows thing.  You wouldn't have a
computer with a COM port, because it's not the computer that has them,
it's the OS.

Actually, COMx is a DOS and BIOS thing. Windows inherited it. It *is* a physical port that in Linux is addressed as ttySx, IIRC.


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