Today's factoid - there is no RS-232!

Thu Feb 5 10:27:08 CST 2015

On 2/5/2015 11:20 AM, Karl W4KRL wrote:
> 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. The EIA has officially disbanded and the standard is 
> now maintained by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). 
> The RS-485 standard is superseded by TIA-485, but often engineers and 
> applications guides continue to use the RS designation.
>

  Yeah, but who's on first?
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