Take a look at this modern day ASrock motherboard. USB3 ports, DDR3 up to 1866, SATA 6, got good features. But then, there's this ugly serial port on the back. Why is that? It's not 1998 anymore right?
http://dynaquestpc.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/600x600/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/a/s/asrock_970de3u3s3_m_.jpg
I mean, if you have a hella old printer it'd be useful. Might as well keep it around to hook dial up modem when the government locks down the internet and the only way to freely share data is text files over dialup, bringin BBS's back baby.
Many people still use serial.
My Uncle has a computer controlled hand radio device that uses 9 pin serial. Though weirdly it sends all audio data over USB3? (But thats not the point)
My old Lego RCX uses a serial com tower to program it, there is a USB version but why fix what isn't broken.
Why aren't you complaining about PS/2 mouse and keyboard. Those still appear on new (even highend) motherboards and they've been classed as "Legacy" ports for 12 years! Hell its not 1987 (when they were first desgined) anymore.
because a lot of things still use serial ports for communication. i have a pic microcontroller programmer that uses the serial port, as well as a lot of microcontrollers. not to mention in c++ i can have direct control over pin i/o with serial ports...
I only use ps/2 for my keyboards. USB doesn't support Nkey rollover so until it does, ps/2 master race.
Yes, it's useful for some tasks, but as a gamer? Hmm, don't know. It would be quite funny though to connect an ancient printer or modem to a gaming system.
USB does support N-key rollover to an extent. My keyboard has an N-key of about 6.
If USB did not have N-key rollover how the hell do you think you still managed to do Ctrl+Alt+Del?
Still have some of these from my old Amiga 600 days
They use a nice 9-pin serial :P Could game with these :L
That's 6key rollover, Nkey means all the keys.
Here just to validate my point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_%28key%29
Sorry my bad, but when the hell are you hitting more than 6 keys on the keyboard at anyone time?
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If most of you guys can think out in the enterpise world and not in-consumer, there are enterprise-graded routers, switches, etc, that still uses COM ports for tty sessions. Handy if you're in the same room where these things are. Also, there are a few consumer boards out there, like the Asus Sabertooth X79, that has an internal COM header. So these things won't go away for sometime.
I use serial port for configuring cisco routers
Same here
Destroyed007 actually is correct.
Most board featuring it are for use in SOHO, SMB and Enterprise or Goverment usage models with specific applications or hardware requirements. In regards to the "normal consumer or standard PC enthuiast there is little need for serial. For more of the board generally in higher price bands you will not see serial implementations. It is focus more on entry level or segement specific skus.
voor een gamers is het nutteloos, het is eerder van toepassing op andere dingen.
wat er onderandere veel gedaan wordt met die com poorten is bepaalde dingen uit lezen, zoals board computers van auto´s alarm systemen, sataliet ontvangers, enzovoorts :P
maar idd het is een vrij nutteloze optie vind ik zelf ook, als die dinge nu op server boards zitten kan ik het me nog in denken maar op gewone computers voor thuis gebruik... nee :P
my gigabyte ga-990fxa-ud3 has a serial header, you need to buy an adapter to use it so I turned it off in the BIOS because I have a USB to RS232 adapter.that I use when configuring routers and switches.
Only good use for the COM port is to configure those Cisco routers.
You could use one to fix Seagate Barracude drives that suffered from the BSY bug
https://sites.google.com/site/seagatefix/
