> > RS-232 (or the 5v version) would be easy to do in the > > hardware. OGD1 > > could do buffering, and it can also do interrupts. > > Yes, but would anybody want to? On second thought, multi-port serial > cards are available with a PCI interface. I don't really see how the > OGD1 could help with terminal emulation. Any accelerated AAlib > rendering would be limited by the data-rate.
To provide a RS-232 console on machines with brain dead firmware that doesn't support this directly. A RS-232 console is extremely useful for logging problems and for remote access. As a way to bootstrap things if the OGD1 will not talk to your display "out of the box". IIRC there have been other uses suggested if someone feels like grepping through the list archives. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
