On 3/15/07, Herbert Graf <mailinglist3@farcite.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 21:18 +0000, peter green wrote:
> > > From a software perspective the FTDI based ones are very
> "transparent",
> > > aside from the "high" COM number.
> > presumablly you can edit this down in device manager provided you have a
> free slot for it
>
> True, but I don't see how having to do that would "conceal" the fact
> that it's really a USB device. TTYL


I thought by transparent, he meant that writing directly to the I/O ports
should have an
identical effect at the far end of the serial cable.

I imagine there are legacy apps that say just let you specify com1 or com2
and then
write directly to the I/O addresses.

John
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