Re: [discuss] Questions

Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> Mon, 04 January 2016 19:01 UTC

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On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Michael Richardson
<mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote:
>
> 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".

sometimes 'craft interface' ... Juniper I think even describes their
serialport/front-panel-blinkies in this manner.

-chris