Lukas, all, Serial ports are a must for me. Whether or not that means they need to be in the base is another question; I vote yes. USB would be of more use if the consortium would spend less time telling us what they are not, and focus on telling us what they are and how to do what we want. Plug-n-play is "simple" until it becomes unpredictable, which is my experience w/ USB in embedded devices. It is wonderful for hooking up printers and flash drives, and is TERRIBLE for configurations that need to "just work" for weeks/months at a time. My Canadian friends (www.connecttech.com) make various cards that add serial ports to machines; their hardware and drivers are basically bullet proof. The notable exception is their USB-serial product, which works, but suffers from USB grumpiness. Please think of serial ports as being alive and well. They are very commonly used in the embedded systems world. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: bschwab@anest.ufl.edu Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029
renggli@gmail.com 10/30/2008 1:53 AM >>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:44 AM, John M McIntosh <johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote: I was glancing thru the source code and noticed we have the serial port & midi classes. Do we need those in the base Pharo?
I don't think so. The serial port seems to be rarely used nowadays. It would be more interesting to have access to the USB ports. Lukas -- Lukas Renggli http://www.lukas-renggli.ch _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project