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 13:42:34 +0200 Lines: 61 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 AC678goAq29S+1Cg3D9emwOZ7wMDSA54p+zVHnVLjx7N7Bwiqw Cancel-Lock: sha1:8ZdmVUjlJXLM59r3hywSCOIc/5Y= sha256:6fBagt5AYnCGrfxnNSl1Vgy3ZLsQFos0m0uPUowF/LE= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-CA, es-ANY In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71203 On 2025-08-15 13:26, c186282 wrote: > On 8/15/25 4:57 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> 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. > > >   I mean 'all-band' as in AM/FM/SW. My all band receiver died. I bought it on Radio Shack in 1990, to listen to the news from Spain in SW. Now, one private radio network that had both AM and FM stations, is killing the AM stations. Probably too expensive to kill. ChatGPT mentions two other private networks still having AM in some regions. >   Transmitters ... require more power, in many cases >   a license. 40 years ago I'd rec CB radio, but not >   many use those anymore. Internet supplied the chat rooms far easily and cheaply. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R.