[time-nuts] usb serial converter

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Wed Jun 15 16:38:11 UTC 2011


Looks like a 3rd party program, not part of a DOS distribution. 

Have you successfully used these third party programs with a prolific chipset? 

 
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Quarksnow <cquarksnow at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:09:18 
To: <lists at lazygranch.com>; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement<time-nuts at febo.com>
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] usb serial converter

Just to set the record straight about DOS not supporting USB :
http://bretjohnson.us/

Christopher

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 20:25, <lists at lazygranch.com> wrote:

> Just a side note here should it ever come up, those usb serial converters
> don't work in DOS. DOS doesn't support USB. You can kind of get them working
> in the so-called DOS window of 32 bit windows, but many DOS apps won't work
> because DOS allowed from direct control of the port and windows gets in the
> way.
>
> For a while, I was getting away with a Socketcom pcmcia serial port and
> open DOS (or maybe Free DOS, I forget. My next notebook had cardbus which I
> guess needs a 32 bit driver.
>
> Over the years I have picked up various Socketcom serial cards at flea
> markets or surplus shops should anyone wish to know what operating systems
> support them. I also have the DOS TSRs to run the cards. Socketcom never had
> them on their website, so I had to buy a used card on ebay to get the
> software.
>
> One of the annoying things is Dell provides a hardware serial port if you
> buy a docking station, but no way to just get a serial port by itself using
> the docking port. Well at least that I know of.
>
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