Compressive serial port and programming information?

Question

What are some compression sources for sequential programming?

Ideally, they will cover things like:

• device history
• current and future use
• how serial devices work.
• protocols
• and, of course, how to program, preferably in C / C ++

Answer 1

This Wikipedia article contains many articles and contains links to other information, including

for Linux and WIN32

and

Serial Port Communication in VB.NET Programming

In addition to this, Wikibooks has a free book on Sequential Programming.

Answer 2

I learned most of my unix serial numbers from Stevens Advanced Programming in UNIX .