USB took over, but motherboard manufacturers retained the 9-pin serial header for legacy compatibility. You may not know ...

It ended up dying to USB—but it put up a hell of a fight.

These are pre-release images of the device prototypes. The final version has improved modular extensions, which are discussed ...

His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer. Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for ...

Distro hopping is a phenomenon found only in Linux. There are several reasons why you might find yourself hopping. The important thing is to find a distro that best suits you. Back in my early days of ...

The Linux 8250 serial driver as the universal/legacy driver for 8250 and 16550 type serial ports has been seeing some modernization work recently with a number of 8250 serial patches having now been ...

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The RS-232, or Recommended Standard 232, is a serial communication protocol introduced in 1960 by the now-defunct Electronic Industries Association (EIA). If you're of a certain age and grew up with ...

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Ports sit at the heart of global trade, handling around 80% of traded goods by volume. Yet they are no longer simply physical gateways for vessels and goods. Today, ports operate as digital, ...

You might have a nine-pin port on the back of your TV, known as an RS-232 serial port, or sometimes just a serial port. This same type of port is commonly used to connect a computer to a printer, but ...