• Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
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      59 分钟前

      Yes. Cold war era tech being manufactured today. You do realize there are plows being manufactured today that are intended to be drawn by oxen?

      It was a tongue in cheek comment and you’ve already displayed elsewhere in the thread how much you know about RS232 but you couldn’t let it slide.

    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      14 小时前

      We have brand new machines that use RS232 and RS485. We just did some configurating on one of them last week.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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        14 小时前

        So do some fire panels, come to think of it. They use RS232 for programming, and either RS232 or RS485 for communication between modules.

        • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          12 小时前

          Yep. Coincidentally, part of that job involved a fire panel.

          It falls under the KISS principal - and if it ain’t broke, why fix it?

          • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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            10 小时前

            Oh, definitely. There’s a lot of products in the fire industry that haven’t fundamentally changed since the 80s or 90s, maybe a few tweaks.