bringbackrs232

They're doing a contest with the people behind .NET version numbers and names.

(Java guys in the corner: "Why can't they just increment an integer like we do?")

The world was confusing when we had distinct ports that looked kind of the same but were not the same: serial ports, parallel ports and PS/2 connectors.

So they invented a universal serial bus. And now we've got 218312893 variants of it with different connectors, speeds, etc.