On 21 February 2014 15:33, Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote:
> Orphanware, especially software with hardware (9-pin serial ports, for
> example, or Okidata 393 printers and NCR paper) or OS requirements can be a
> real problem for clients. There's only so far you want to take emulators
> and kludgy solutions.

On a related note I interviewed a guy for a position this week (2nd interview).
The software I write interfaces with many external systems.  Serial,
TCP/IP, file based, SOAP, dlls, you name it.

I asked him if he knew what a serial port is.  He didn't know...

-- 
Paul

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