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unusual facts about serial console



Emergency Management Services

Emergency Management Services (EMS) provides an RS-232 accessible serial console interface to the bootloader menu on modern versions of Microsoft Windows.


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Network Console on Acid

Preferably 'nca' should be started very early in the OS' boot sequence, as so configured (according to the homepage) "It's the next best thing to a serial console for fixing boot-time problems remotely."

Plink

Plink (PuTTY Link) is a free and open-source (MIT license) command-line network connection tool similar to UNIX ssh written by Simon Tatham, author of another popular terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application name PuTTY It is mostly used for automated operations, such as making CVS access a repository on a remote server.

TtyEmulator

TtyEmulator is a Freeware terminal emulator application which can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP computing protocols and as a serial console client.