Why the Apple II ProDOS 2.4 Release Is the OS News of the Year

Re:Why the Apple II ProDOS 2.4 Release Is the OS News of the... by lostboys67 on Friday September 16, 2016 @06:28AM (#12513003)

Anyone who seriously works in networking still needs serial ports all pro grade networking gear uses it for console and OOB connectivity to the AUX ports (in ciscos case)

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Re:Why the Apple II ProDOS 2.4 Release Is the OS News of the... by planteen on Friday September 16, 2016 @07:23AM (#12513230)

You also need serial ports today for low level kernel debugging, hardware bring up, and embedded systems. I have worked for 5 different companies over my career doing embedded systems. Serial ports were important in 5/5 companies.

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Re:Why the Apple II ProDOS 2.4 Release Is the OS News of the... by freehunter on Friday September 16, 2016 @11:54AM (#12514863)

I would love if my Macbook had a serial port. I use it all the time. I would never demand Apple add a serial port though.

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Re:Why the Apple II ProDOS 2.4 Release Is the OS News of the... by stephenr on Friday September 16, 2016 @07:37AM (#12513292)

And I'd be willing to bet a decent number of people in that position use a USB to Serial dongle.

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Re:Why the Apple II ProDOS 2.4 Release Is the OS News of the... by thedaemon on Friday September 16, 2016 @09:12AM (#12513708)

Which is not 100% reliable and can cause data corruption.

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