Re: serial console

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Subject: Re: serial console
From: Alain D D Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:32:13 +0100
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 01:58:35PM +0100, John Dow wrote:

> It worries me that knowledge of these things (and UARTs and character vs block devices and any number of other things) is likely to die out with us old farts :)

I do not know anyone who has direct knowledge of mercury delay line memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory

That is what museums are for, but yes: memory of these things die.

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