I was an RF engineer a few years back for a smaller ISP in rural America designing and baseline testing an LTE wireless network for fixed access. I visited a central office of the company where they had the baseband units installed for the tower on the roof, and it was like walking through a living timeline of communications technology. Wire wraps for POTS lines, more wire wraps for DSL, switches of varying ages, all the way to routers with 100Gb optical ports blinking away. One thing I remember is an old i486 in the corner running Windows 3.1 that they still used for testing the POTS lines. It's awesome how some technology just lingers because it was just that good.
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Re: Random: This US Bakery Still Uses A Commodore 64 For Sales In 2024
I was an RF engineer a few years back for a smaller ISP in rural America designing and baseline testing an LTE wireless network for fixed access. I visited a central office of the company where they had the baseband units installed for the tower on the roof, and it was like walking through a living timeline of communications technology. Wire wraps for POTS lines, more wire wraps for DSL, switches of varying ages, all the way to routers with 100Gb optical ports blinking away. One thing I remember is an old i486 in the corner running Windows 3.1 that they still used for testing the POTS lines. It's awesome how some technology just lingers because it was just that good.
Re: PS1 Emulation Comes To iPhone Via Gamma
This is wild to me. PS1 emulation has been up and running on Android for over a decade. Hard to believe it's taken this long for iOS.