As someone with both feet in the embedded development world, reading this from 1995 is fun:
Note that even the RS232 port itself is a standard. And an inferior one; sending stuff at 9600 baud over a 7 wire connection is a travesty by modern standards.
Note: RS232 is still around, and still relevant on modern systems. Not perhaps "actual" RS232 with the large voltage swing and negative voltage, but the UART signalling.
Also, I wonder what he would have preferred, USB was really really young then.
Note that even the RS232 port itself is a standard. And an inferior one; sending stuff at 9600 baud over a 7 wire connection is a travesty by modern standards.
Note: RS232 is still around, and still relevant on modern systems. Not perhaps "actual" RS232 with the large voltage swing and negative voltage, but the UART signalling.
Also, I wonder what he would have preferred, USB was really really young then.