How to create a virtual serial port?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-04-15, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:20:30 +0000 (UTC), JanC <usenet at janc.invalid>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>> 
>> USB *is* a serial port... that's what the "S" stands for.  ;)
>>
> 	It is a serial protocol, but it is a shared bus-based protocol, in
> contrast to the 1<>1 protocol used by serial ports.

in contrast to the 1<>1 protocol used by _most_ serial ports.  

There are plenty of bus architectures based on serial ports
(and generally one-master, many-slave, just like USB).

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