From: gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net   
      
   On 12/12/21 1:58 PM, muta...@gmail.com wrote:   
   > That's the exact problem. They took away the physical connector   
   > without updating the firmware to redirect it to something else   
   > (USB/Bluetooth/Wifi).   
      
   They added a new physical connector that was in demand.  They removed   
   the old physical connector that had multiple orders of magnitude less   
   demand to make room for the new connector.   
      
   > They did allow hard disks to be redirected to the USB port.   
      
   No.   
      
   USB has something that looks like a hard disk.  But it's decidedly   
   different than a hard disk attached to an IDE / SCSI controller.   
      
   USB /also/ has something that looks like a serial port.   
      
   Neither of the USB counterparts work as well or have the same properties   
   as the non-USB things.   
      
   > Anyway, I'm pretty sure you can buy PCs with a serial port, which   
   > is the donkey solution I will probably have to resort to if no BIOS   
   > manufacturer does this internally.   
      
   You can buy PCIe add-on cards that have serial ports on them.  Honest to   
   $DEITY serial ports, not emulated things.   
      
      
      
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