VT340 Emulation

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Mon Jun 28 08:52:11 CDT 2021


On 6/28/21 6:22 AM, David Brownlee via cctalk wrote:

> I think he's probably referring to the hugely overinflated BIOS &
> firmware updating software that most x86 hardware ships with.
> 
> I've never had the need to connect an FTDI based device to anything
> other than NetBSD, but I remember reading the horror stories a while
> back about FTDI Windows drivers trying to brick knock off clone
> hardware.

Never ran into that; I do use USB-serial dongles using the Prolific
chipset and have never had problems with Linux or Windows 7 or XP.

FWIW
Chuck



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