[Elecraft] KUSB Adapter Alternative

[Julian, G4ILO]

Joe Subich, W4TV-4 wrote:
> 
> 
>> USB is good technology and it only needs a few little 
>> improvements in future revisions to specifications.
> 
> With its plug and play features, USB is very handy for consumer 
> toys and games but it is severely lacking in many other ways. 
> 
> 

Joe is absolutely right here. A serial port is a hardware device with well
documented properties and its own dedicated interrupt that could get the
operating system's attention the instant it needed it. The problem is that
USB provides an imperfect emulation of a serial port that does not work with
all software.

With most of the uses USB is put to the device is designed to work with USB
right from the start so the driver writers don't have to try to emulate a
dedicated piece of hardware. That makes it easier to ensure that things
always work as expected. Even so it was not all that long ago when many USB
devices did not work with certain USB chipsets. VIA chipsets were notorious
for problems.

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Julian, G4ILO. K2 #392  K3 #222.
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* KTune - http://www.g4ilo.com/ktune.html

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