The HardwareIOGroup is concerned with issues relating to JOS's interaction with the hardware for IO.
Specific issues include:
How about support for 'Be GeekPort' style ports? Especially good when the OS is being used in academic environments, and just fun. WillMatthews
What about smartcard support for security and ID etc.
-- KeithMason 16Mar1998
See http://java.sun.com/products/javacomm/javadoc/Package-javax.comm.html
(I wonder why Sun removed this package from its site - there is no entry point from the javasoft site to this package)
-- PhilNeumann 6.5.1998