From: Jim Brain (brain_at_jbrain.com)
Date: 2005-05-12 16:20:27
Marko Mäkelä wrote:
>On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:37:37AM +0200, MagerValp wrote:
>
>
>>>>>>>"JB" == Jim Brain <brain@jbrain.com> writes:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>JB> No taker here. at least not yet. USB is not nearly as easy to
>>JB> implement, and unless you can shoehorn your project into a
>>JB> well-supported USB family like HID, you're into writing device
>>JB> drivers for each OS you intend to support.
>>
>>So if you make it appear as a serial port, shouldn't you be able to
>>use your VIP server unmodified?
>>
>>
Yes, that is exactly my roadmap. I want maximum exposure, and not all
PCs have USB, but all USB machines can buy a USB cable that provides a
virtual serial port. And, if I have to write a device driver, I'd
rather write one for one of those cables, as it has more usefulness
outside VIP.
>
>To make it appear as a serial port, you would have to write a virtual
>serial port driver for every operating system you are going to support,
>or to make it appear as one of the existing USB to serial port adapters.
>
>
Which is something that FDTI (your comments notwithstanding), and others
have done.
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Jim Brain, Brain Innovations
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