Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past (fwd)

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Mon Sep 20 09:41:22 2004

At 09:20 AM 9/20/2004, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
>On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, David V. Corbin wrote:
>
>> >>> Most cheap-brand card drivers have not been tested with SMP
>> >>> systems, and, often, will blow up on said systems.

And why is SMP so rare that it wouldn't have been tested?
So if Belkin is too cheap-brand, who makes an expensive
USB to serial converter that'll perform more reliably
and where can I buy it? For many of these odd gizmos,
are they actually made by reputable expensive companies?
There's a Cisco USB-to-serial adapter I don't know about?

- John
Received on Mon Sep 20 2004 - 09:41:22 BST