Timeline for How to tell which is "port" and which is"interface" on electronic devices (e.g., PC)
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| Aug 9, 2023 at 1:30 | vote | accept | Dai_Lizhi86 | ||
| Aug 8, 2023 at 21:44 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Port is to the left, starboard to the right. | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 19:01 | comment | added | Tetsujin | My audio interfaces are very much physical things. The concepts of HUI/GUI (Human/Graphical User Interface) are not always, of course, but mice, keyboards etc are collectively known as HIDs [Human Interface Devices] | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 18:27 | comment | added | Weather Vane | Whatever a port may be, an interface is usually not physical, but a conceptual thing. | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 18:08 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | The power input socket on a laptop is definitely not a "port". Ports are geek-speak terminology for places where data signals pass from one electronic device / component to another, not power supplies. But you can call them all (including USB and HDMI ports) "plug-holes". | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 16:49 | history | edited | fev |
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| Aug 8, 2023 at 16:47 | comment | added | Hot Licks | The distinction is not well-defined, even among computer nerds. | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 16:35 | comment | added | Colin Fine | These are technical terms, unknown to most people in this sense, and certainly the distinction is not widely understood. | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 16:08 | answer | added | Nuclear Hoagie | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 15:53 | history | asked | Dai_Lizhi86 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |