In my last column [see LJ December 2002], we covered the serial layer in the 2.5 (hopefully soon to be 2.6) kernel tree. We mentioned in passing that a USB-to-serial driver layer in the kernel helps ...

In a quest for a truly minimal computer, that can be built from readily available 74HC components on a low cost pcb, I have settled on a novel 8-bit, bit-serial architecture - a design that I call ...