As I recall the market was flooded with emulators meant for mouse use, and not actually rs232. There is a big difference between adresing hardware thru the os and talking
-----Original Message----- From: Jerry B. Altzman jbaltz-at-altzman.com |nyphp MAIN ONE dev/internal group use| <...> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 8:14 AM To: NYPHP Talk <talk@lists.nyphp.org> Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] [OT] notebook recommendations - time to retire the Thinkpad t42p... anyone know Lenovo's t61p? on 2008-08-09 12:28 inforequest said the following: > I need a serial port often...its still used quite a bit for null modem > connections. I don't expect a 9 pin on my new notebook, but I wouldn't regret > one USB->serial connectors are cheap, plentiful, and work like a charm in Windows and Linux. [The entire original message is not included] _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php