On Aug 22, 2009, at 4:43 PM, John M McIntosh wrote:
Well Macs don't have serial ports, at least not the ones that were built after 1998. The macintosh serial port source just stubs out the logic when we moved from Carbon to OS-X in 2002. I do note where people use *serial* device like things is for MIDI, but the MIDI plugin for OS-X talks to the quicktime interface when interacts with the USB *serial* like midi devices.
However once Ian confirms the changes are done, I can just swap in the unix serial support which might help some folks that have obscure serial like USB devices.
Lastly there are some USB plugins around that let folks talk to USB devices (very custom needs).
John,
Just curious when you thought these changes might be incorporated into the OS X VM?
Thanks, Phil