Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past (fwd)

[Fred N. van Kempen]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, John Foust wrote:

> And why is SMP so rare that it wouldn't have been tested?
Because the cheap-brands market is basically 99% single-CPU
systems, and therefore the companies developing the support
software for em dont bother testing that.

> So if Belkin is too cheap-brand, who makes an expensive
> USB to serial converter that'll perform more reliably
> and where can I buy it?  For many of these odd gizmos,
> are they actually made by reputable expensive companies?
> There's a Cisco USB-to-serial adapter I don't know about?
Dunno the brands I have, can look em up.  I do have a
Keyspan serial one, too (as another listmember does),
and that works fine.  Ethernet and WiFi are Linksys
and Cisco.  Dunno about the parallel and ISDN, probably
Xircom.

--f