In a similiar vein, embedded deep in UNIX are ways to set virtually every parameter you could imagine for communications through a serial port. Is this more useful than USB? You set those parameters because of shortcomings of the serial port, not because they are intrinsically desirable.
Now, as USB is so easy and useful as-is, kindly describe how I can make an SPI programmer cable, which requires reset, three signal lines and ground, by using USB, easily?
Of course, you can't. However, with RS-232 is is quite simple actually; connectors and wire (and tro resistors because processor didn't like +12VDC on it's reset pin) - and most importantly, low-level access to all lines that are there due to "shortcomings".
Just because it (whatever "it" happens to be) happens to be "easy" in some situation doesn't mean it's easy in all cases.
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You haven't got a life until you've got a MC. Damn winter, can't even ride my bike...
So, in other words, Microsoft finally managed to "innovate" something that (for example) Borland has been doing for what, ten years now?
Funnily enough, finnish Handlesbanken's site works perfectly, although there were some login problems in past.
So, basically what's happened:
"No one will never, ever use more than 16 megabytes of memory!" --Microsoft
With windows, who's able to tell the difference?
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Yeah, during the beta phase all the major region players (Hussein, Khamenei (sp?), the israeli, ...) were set up there by the US.
In a similiar vein, embedded deep in UNIX are ways to set virtually every parameter you could imagine for communications through a serial port. Is this more useful than USB? You set those parameters because of shortcomings of the serial port, not because they are intrinsically desirable.
Now, as USB is so easy and useful as-is, kindly describe how I can make an SPI programmer cable, which requires reset, three signal lines and ground, by using USB, easily?
Of course, you can't. However, with RS-232 is is quite simple actually; connectors and wire (and tro resistors because processor didn't like +12VDC on it's reset pin) - and most importantly, low-level access to all lines that are there due to "shortcomings".
Just because it (whatever "it" happens to be) happens to be "easy" in some situation doesn't mean it's easy in all cases.