Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Serial trains


One of the boards at Waterloo clearly in a reboot loop, interesting to note that they use serial communication protocols. The "DATA" channel is running at 57600 baud (what used to be labelled 56K) with 8 data bits and 1 stop bit with no parity bits, I remember having a dial-up modem with this kind of speed and configuration back in the early 90s, old technology I guess but it's probably more than sufficient for this simple use case and also uber-reliable (usually!)

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