[RFE] STR #3935: Drop serial andparallelbackends

roland roland at logikalsolutions.com
Sun Nov 13 08:33:48 PST 2011


> On Nov 10, 2011, at 7:31 AM, roland wrote:
> >>
> >> DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE.  INSTEAD, POST ANY RESPONSES TO THE LINK BELOW.
> >>
> >> [STR Closed w/Resolution]
> >>
> >> Fixed in Subversion repository.
> >>
> >> Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3935
> >> Version: 1.6-feature
> >> Fix Version: 1.6-current (r9925)
> >>
> >
> > If there actually was a method of posting something at the link, I would respond there.
>
> There is, you just need to log in.
>
> > DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES DROP SUPPORT FOR SERIAL AND PARALLEL PRINTERS.
>
> It has already happened.

Then back it out!

>
> > Whoever came up with that idea has no concept of reality.
>
> It has been many years since any personal computer was sold with a parallel port, and most consumer PCs haven't had a serial port in a long time, too.
>

Whoever made that statement was talking so far out their rectal sphincter that if they stood in California when they said it, the only people who could have possibly heard lived in China.

I took 10 minutes and went to the Microcenter Web site.  This isn't the biggest computer chain store in the U.S., but it is large.  ALL OF THESE ARE FOR SALE TODAY!

searial port computers

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0373106
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0373108
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0371737
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378290

parallel and serial

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0360509
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0366803
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378821
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0376500
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378825
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378822
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378826
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0367044
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378828
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0358703
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0376497
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378163
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378823
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0360494
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0378827
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0358698
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0364885

motherboards with serial and parallel

http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0375352
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0365090


I didn't go to Tiger Direct because the list would have been exponentially longer.

Backout this ill thought out change.







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