[rescue] sparc 20 serial

[Michael Schiller]

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On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 03:05  PM, vance at neurotica.com wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>    As far as I can remember, I've never seen a Sun system with a male
>> serial connector.
>
> Why do they do that?

Maybe I'm showing my age here, but years ago, the 'standard' serial 
connector was female (the way Sun does it), and it wasn't till PCs that 
they started putting male connectors on machines.  The logic to having 
male connectors, which have pins that can bend, and break on relatively 
expensive equipment, rather than on relatively inexpensive cables is 
one I never could understand.


- -Mike
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