I wasn't sure Linux and Macs had good USB support.  It is good to see
they do.  My remaining concern about USB is if I had an application
(none on the horizon yet) where I control my box from another PIC based
box.  That would require the new PIC to be a USB master, which I hear is
very hard.

Sherpa Doug

BTW, I currently use 115200 baud RS232, a little faster would be nice.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan B. Pearce [mailto:A.B.Pearce@RL.AC.UK]
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 9:43 AM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [PIC]: preferred modern I/O
>
>
> >USB             Windows-centric, hard to make a non-PC based
> master if I
> needed one
>
> This would be the way I would look at going, using a pair of
> USB-Serial
> adapters. AFAIK Linux is pretty advanced at using USB, especially for
> generic devices like this, so making a non-PC based unit
> should not be a
> problem. When you say PC based, I assume you mean Wintel
> based, as Macs use
> USB as well, so to say USB is PC based is not really correct.
>
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