[Coco] COM Retention

[Tony Cappellini]

We use many of the Startech (and others) 16 port USB-Serial adapters where
I  work
The driver for this device has worked great. The systems have been rebooted
many times,
the COM ports have not changed. Imagine having to reassign the COM ports on
any/all of the
16 * x COM ports that we are using, whenever the system was rebooted. It
would be quite a waste
of time.

COM port retention has no bearing on use with the coco, it's merely a
convenience.

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Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:53:42 -0600
From: Robert Hermanek <rhermanek at centurytel.net>
Subject: [Coco] COM Retention
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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Looking at StarTech USB to Serial adapters, they have nice 4 port units
for around $60, and they use the FTDI chipset, so nice drivers that you
can tweak a lot of the usb-to-serial behaviors. In particular looking at
ICUSB2324 model on Newegg.  However for about $20 more you can buy
similar units with "COM retention." Anyone have an explanation as to
what that is, and whether it would be helpful/hindrance when interfacing
with coco?

-RobertH