What I/O boards do users want?

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RossW Guru Joined: 25/02/2006 Location: Australia Posts: 495	Posted: 11:01am 13 Jun 2011         rhamer said   I kind of think Ethernet is the other side of the line, not because I don't like it, but because if I want to start working at that level then MMbasic is not the language to do it. With respect, I disagree. LOTS of people (I'd dare say an increasing proportion of people and applications) will want to collect and share their data. And doing that over RS232 or USB is an increasingly cumbersome and expensive way to do it. Most people now have ethernet for their adsl modems, and wireless access points etc. Its a good, universal standard, ideal for moving reasonably large amounts of data in very short time with relatively high data integrity and very low overheads for checksums etc. Not that it's my call of course! I don't have a maximite (yet). No ethernet is (for me) a deal-breaker. (I just purchased 6 ethernet-enabled boards that are "kinda similar" to the maximite but without kb or vga (but with lots of other things I need more - onewire support etc)