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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/5/2015 11:20 AM, Karl W4KRL wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style=""><span
style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">The
Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) once labeled all its
standards with the prefix "RS" (Recommended Standard), but
the EIA-TIA officially replaced "RS" with "EIA/TIA" to help
identify the origin of its standards.</span><span
style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"> The
EIA has officially disbanded and the standard is now
maintained by the </span><font color="#252525"
face="sans-serif"><span
style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">Telecommunications
Industry Association (</span></font><span
style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">TIA).
The RS-485 standard is superseded by TIA-485, but often
engineers and applications guides continue to use the RS
designation.</span></div>
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Yeah, but who's on first? <br>
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