Rename the serial port?
In his column "Serial Ports: TIA-232 ot -485?", former T&MW chief editor Jon Titus wrote "… specified by the TIA-232-F (1997) standard, also called RS-232C, a name held over from years ago."
He continued…
Many people still identify most standard serial ports as RS-232 or RS-232C. The "C" version of the spec went out of date years ago. Likewise, the Recommended Standard (RS) is no longer "recommended:" it exists as a standard under the auspices of the Telecommunication Industry Association (www.tiaonline.org).
If you see “TIA-232,” do you know that it’s the official designation of the serial port? At T&MW, we still use “RS-232” because it’s the most popular name for the port. In contrast if I write “GPIB” my editors will change it to “IEEE 488,” the official designation of the instrument bus. Should we be consistent and use the official designations for these buses or should we use the more popular names, RS-232 and GPIB? Or, should continue to use the unofficial name for the serial port and the official name for the instrument bus as we have always done?
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