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Re:New USB-C logos make picking USB cables, chargers less co... by kalleboo on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:15AM (#28745679)
It was never that simple. Your serial cables had peripheral or null-modem (I have a serial cable marked "MIDI" I have no idea what is different). Parallel port cables could be SCSI cables instead. Some cables didn't have all pins wired to save money. With PS/2 ports you had to get the mouse and keyboard the right way around despite having the same port.
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Re:New USB-C logos make picking USB cables, chargers less co... by foxfluff on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:20AM (#28745723)
It got pretty simple for a while when old serial & parallel ports were phased out in favor of USB. Also VGA worked for a very long time even after DVI and HDMI appeared on the scene.

(I never had as much trouble with connecting displays as I do today)

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Re:New USB-C logos make picking USB cables, chargers less co... by pdpi on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:50AM (#28745999)
DVI was something special, though. The fun of DVI-A vs DVI-D vs DVI-I, then single vs double link.
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Re:New USB-C logos make picking USB cables, chargers less co... by dec0dedab0de on Monday October 04, 2021 @09:14AM (#28746257)
Especially since it was an HDMI video signal anyway. I never understood why it even existed

Edit: Ahh I didn't realize DVI was first, that makes more sense. I just remembered getting a DVI motherboard, and an HDMI TV around the same time.

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Re:New USB-C logos make picking USB cables, chargers less co... by theandrewbailey on Monday October 04, 2021 @09:32AM (#28746490)
DVI was first by a few years. HDMI expanded on DVI-D and added more features.
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Re:New USB-C logos make picking USB cables, chargers less co... by ziml77 on Monday October 04, 2021 @09:27AM (#28746412)
That's incorrect. It was HDMI that carried a DVI signal.
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Re:New USB-C logos make picking USB cables, chargers less co... by NikolaNovak on Monday October 04, 2021 @09:59AM (#28746769)
Oh gawd yes. Monitors and video cards and laptops all seem to come with different combinations of audio and video ports and I am enough kinds of geek already - I don't Want to be a/v geek.
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