17 Apr
2011
17 Apr
'11
11:34 p.m.
On 4/18/2011 12:35 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Charlie Carothers wrote:
LOL! (Well at 300 baud I dunno. :-) ) OK, the actual download baud
rate could be anything from 2400 to 33,600, depending. And at the
slower rates, yes it could take a good while - though not 15 years!
Still, it was much better than the alternative which involved a laptop
at the remote site, with a real serial port, with a qualified person in
attendance, with a bit of jumper fiddling, etc. etc.
Later,
Charlie C.
You're definitely right about the Just Works
part. About 15 years ago I
used it to implement a remote code loader over dial-up phone lines -
about 1MB of code per download. Using short packets and the 16 bit CRC
error detection, I've seen it successfully download in the face of an
incredible number of packets in error. It's still in use today AFAIK.
Surely, the remote code download that you started running 15 years ago
must be almost finished by now.