A device attached to a serial port, such as a mouse or a modem, USES the device associated with that port.

对像一个鼠标或一台调制解调器这样的一个串行端口的一个装置附件，使用与那一个埠有关的装置。

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The Net lets anyone with a computer and a modem compete mouse to mouse with mainstream media. (Drudge's publishing empire is the living room of his Hollywood apartment.) But many of the Net's would-be Woodwards and Bernsteins are journalistic novices and wouldn't think, say, to ask court or police sources to confirm a rumor.

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