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Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Mon, 21 December 2015 19:11 UTC

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Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net> wrote:
    > Oh, and serial ports.  Those started out as DB-25, then DB-9, then
    > RJ-45, and now mini-USB, emulating serial ports.  People briefly tried
    > bluetooth emulating serial ports, but there were too many ways for that
    > to go wrong.

I learnt recently that the telco's have a term I'd never heard of before to
describe those serial ports: "craft terminals".

(They are immensively valuable when you need them, and very annoying in many
places to get approved by managers)


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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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