The notion that USB will be supported long after parallel is a folly!
Serial or parallel are far more likely to work in the future than USB.
I did not expect this either, but recently we retired windows XP at
work and I had several USB connected pieces of equipment that had no
driver support for the new operating systems. With serial port this
was not an issue since there is no device driver required.
So yes, USB as a _connector_ and bus system will be around for a long
time, but driver support for USB devices will likely not survive the
next windows version. Your USB devices will become totally useless if
just one manufacturer stops providing driver updates, while a vast
number of different serial/parallel adapter manufacturers have to stop
supplying product for those interfaces to go away.
ST
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Kirk McLoren <kirkmcloren@...> wrote:
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> USB will be supported long after parallel is in the dust.