Paul Bacon had long since advanced from detox to stints in jail. It was 2002 and he was incarcerated again, looking at 90 days. One morning, a public defender arrived at his cell to offer him the ...

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Work done by North Carolina State University (NCSU) will now allow normal serial software (applications that utilize only a single thread for their operations, by processing operations in a strict ...

As part of a project I'm working on, I need to be able to remotely launch programs on my XP Pro workstation, or execute batch files/etc. by monitoring serial port communication and responding to it.

Making serial software—programs where a series of operations happen in strict sequential order—exploit multicore processors is a pressing problem. A group at North Carolina State University has ...