Macintosh comes with two built-in serial ports, the RS232, the RS422 and an incredible thing called Apple Bus Interconnect.

Macintosh有两个内置串口，RS232和RS422，还有一个不可思议东西叫做苹果互连总线。

But I found a point later during the init process where poking the serial flash device caused the init process to fail and give me exactly what I wanted out of this. A root shell on the device.

但后来始化过程中发现，戳到串口闪存设备会导致始化过程失败，并从中得到想要东西。设备上根外壳。

A general-purpose computer that communicates with the target via a serial port or network connection. This term is usually used to distinguish the computer on which the debugger is running from the embedded system that is being developed.

一台通用计算机，它通过串口或网络连接与目标机通讯。这处名词一般用来区程序运行计算机和被开发嵌入式系统。

And they designed this device to to not respond to any serial input.

他们把这个装置设计成不对任何串口输入做出反应。

A debugging tool that takes the place of-or emulates-the ROM on your target board. A ROM emulator acts very much like a debug monitor, except that it includes its own serial or network connection to the host.

一种你目标板上代替或模拟ROM工具。ROM模拟器动作起来象一个除错监视器，除了它包含自己连到主机上串口或网络外。

The developers will turn the serial port on when something goes wrong.

当出现问题时，开发人员会打开串口。

A piece of hardware that interfaces between the processor and the outside world. Common examples are switches and LEDs, serial ports, and network controllers.

一种介于处理器和外界之间硬件设备。一般实例是开关、LED、串口和网络控制器。

Maybe it's LEDs, maybe it's something on the serial console.

可能是LED，也可能是串口控制台上什么东西。