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2009 Jan 16
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Questions on the state of the UPS market
...be there are still SPSes in the world. 1b: Is the SPS in fact dead as a technical category? If not, why not? Oh, and this, too: 1c: RS232C, on consumer devices, in 2009? Ferfuckssake, *why*? It's not like USB chips are expensive or anything. I know all about this from GPS-land, actually; pl2303s are so cheap that even if the vendors wanted to retread their RS232 designs, the cost of goods to refit them with USB-to-serial conversion is close to zip. Does anyone have a clue why this interface type didn't die five years ago? -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric...