[Elecraft] Developing Products, the Elecraft Way

[David Woolley]

On 05/08/15 16:21, Jerry Moore wrote:
> My thoughts would be that all devices use the USB instead of RS232. By
> design the USB is a BUS rather than a point to point protocol as is RS232.

In spite of its name, USB is not a bus.  At the physical level, it is 
most definitely point to point, and, unlike RS232 cannot be abused into 
a bus configuration.

It does have a network layer, although I think that only supports 
unicast.  RS232 is only a physical layer specification, and not a 
complete one.  Anyone using the internet before ADSL almost certainly 
was using RS232 as the first hop to a global network.

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David Woolley
Owner K2 06123