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RE: A brief look into USB 2.0 cable specs and implementation

Nice post Kurt.

I would like to comment that RS-232 is (sadly) anything but an "industrial grade" interface. It is a low speed, unisolated, unbalanced interface designed for local interface to modems. That's it. Everything else it was used for was a bastardization and frought with problems.

But it was the ONLY thing resembling a "desktop" network that had any support for many years and having worked with it for quite a few of them I can attest that it's a HW and SW PITA. The USB scheme is different in many respects but the main thing it has going is that it was actually created to be a desktop network.

Now I'm retired so am just a "user" and I'm delighted with how well the scheme has been working the last decade, what a huge improvement for both the users and manufacturers. Our tech-support folks used to spend about 2/3 of their time trying to resolve customer's 232 related problems...

Rick

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