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

[Doc Shipley]

John Foust wrote:

> At 09:20 AM 9/20/2004, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, David V. Corbin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>>Most cheap-brand card drivers have not been tested with SMP
>>>>>>systems, and, often, will blow up on said systems. 
> 
> 
> And why is SMP so rare that it wouldn't have been tested?
> 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?

   Keyspan.  Their stuff isn't horribly expensive, but it seems to Just 
Work.

   Belkin is a fairly decent brand, but most of their stuff is rebadged 
something else, and it's definitely oriented to consumer-level Windows 
users.  In my experience, the package usually doesn't address 
non-Windows support, and there's a reason for that.


	Doc