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> USB-to-parallel module Those have awful latency so bitbanging is less efficient. > FTDI now has a track record of punishing their legit customers for the ex
by qb45 10y ago
> USB-to-parallel module
Those have awful latency so bitbanging is less efficient.
> FTDI now has a track record of punishing their legit customers for the existence of knockoff chips.
At least they only bricked the knockoffs.
Prolific simply disabled support for their older, widely counterfeited PL2303HXA chips in Windows 8+. The same driver binary loaded under W7 still supports them.
- eumoria 10y ago> At least they only bricked the knockoffs. As opposed to what? Making them burst into flames in the hope of burning the person's house down? Bricking is pretty much the worst thing you can do.
- qb45 10y agoAs opposed to disabling the knockoffs and genuine chips. Sorry for the confusion. I noticed that English speakers place "only" before the verb in such sentences and I'm monkeying them even though it doesn't make sense to me either ;)
- Tiksi 10y agoNah, what you said made sense, I initially read it the way you meant it, but it is ambiguous enough to read either way.