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Re: Seriial ports on PCs. (was Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs?)

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In article <9q091c9ou458mfg6i85r8n2n4n2bo175ol@4ax.com>, 
upsidedown@downunder.com says...
> 
> On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 09:03:47 +0100, Paul
> <paul@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >In article <4c2f9b2e-570c-475a-8838-ef024e90518b@googlegroups.com>, 
> >drn@nadler.com says...
> >> 
> >> On Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 4:42:07 PM UTC-4, Don Y wrote:
> >> > ...A TWX would handle this differently than a modern PC, etc....
> >> 
> >> Of course, as a 'modern' PC hasn't had a serial port in a decade ;-)
> >
> >Side point actually not true.
> >
> >For Laptops/netbooks/Phones/tablets that is true.
> 
> Five years ago, I was able to buy a laptop with a _real_ UART, not one
> with on board USB/Serial converter. But I guess this would be
> impossible these days.

Considering most of the mobile type devices are trending to thin as 
possible (meaning breakable as possible), these days to have a true 
serial port on these types of devices and DB9 would require cable 
adapter or docking station.

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UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? Dave Nadler <drn@nadler.com> - 2016-10-27 13:21 -0700
  Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2016-10-27 13:41 -0700
    Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? Dave Nadler <drn@nadler.com> - 2016-10-28 10:42 -0700
      Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2016-10-28 11:15 -0700
        Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2016-10-28 11:21 -0700
        Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2016-10-29 00:17 +0000
          Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2016-10-28 19:28 -0700
            Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? upsidedown@downunder.com - 2016-10-29 13:57 +0300
      Seriial ports on PCs. (was Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs?) Paul <paul@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk> - 2016-10-29 09:03 +0100
        Re: Seriial ports on PCs. (was Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs?) upsidedown@downunder.com - 2016-10-29 14:12 +0300
          Re: Seriial ports on PCs. (was Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs?) Paul <paul@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk> - 2016-10-30 09:34 +0000
  Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? Tim Wescott <seemywebsite@myfooter.really> - 2016-10-27 16:39 -0500
    Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-10-28 01:02 +0300
    Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? lasselangwadtchristensen@gmail.com - 2016-10-27 15:31 -0700
    Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-10-28 10:17 +0200
      Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-10-28 14:23 +0000
        Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-10-28 16:34 +0200
        Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2016-10-28 12:02 -0700
      Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2016-10-28 11:50 -0700
      Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? upsidedown@downunder.com - 2016-10-29 01:51 +0300
        Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? upsidedown@downunder.com - 2016-10-29 13:59 +0300
  Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? Wolfgang Mahringer <yeti201@gmx.at> - 2016-10-28 16:45 +0200
  Re: UART behavior for CTS/RTS - Kinetis bugs? Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2016-10-28 22:28 +0000

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