Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Real-time OSs (Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:57:33 +0200 Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <3rkmmlxplv.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <107cipt$2g8mr$9@dont-email.me> <107ghmk$3j56j$4@dont-email.me> <107kfi2$d4vh$21@dont-email.me> <107kma2$d4vh$36@dont-email.me> <107kohu$ggm3$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net zQXN7I0YH3O44caIRWou9gzC8LWXNkjdCkCcOv7KyGICJAyafR Cancel-Lock: sha1:25UNWhBSPmUfmAGSAK+M1eTZ7BM= sha256:IwhbFbZL2gfR9U1RgrbNIYAqYYGbskylE6TDeLsKi24= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-CA, es-ANY In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71186 On 2025-08-15 05:53, c186282 wrote: > On 8/14/25 12:52 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> On 2025-08-14 15:32, Rich wrote: >>> In comp.os.linux.misc Carlos E. R. wrote: >>>> The fact is that with POTS the phone service was assured for days >>>> even in the case of a full power failure, and now with the >>>> replacement, be it fibre or cellular, service is not assured.  For >>>> whatever reasons. >>> >>> The old legacy analog copper POTS phone system was fully powered from >>> the exchange building, and the exchange usually had both very large >>> batteries plus large diesel gensets to power itself during power >>> outages (both because of regulations requiring the backups). >> >> I know. I worked in that sector, and I participated in the >> installation of one such. We tested the power failure scenario. > > >   I was in an area where all the bad stuff happened - no >   landlines, no cell, no power, no govt water - for weeks. >   Even most of the roads were blocked. Total infrastructure >   failure. NOT good. > >   Barbara Bush DID fly in with bottled water though  :-) > >   The FIRST thing to come back up was the landline phones. > >   In any case, invest in an all-channel battery radio. Not >   too much money, well worth it. Might be your ONLY link >   to What's Going On. SOME have little solar charging >   panels built in. Are you thinking plain FM radio? Yes, I have one with battery replenished days before, it was my float to safety. Shops run out of them soon, and of batteries. Days later I got questions asked in Amazon about the very same model I have. Or do you mean two way radio? What band, 27? It is out of fashion since internet. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R.