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Ward Christensen (of BBS and XMODEM fame) has died

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322 points DamonHD | 1 comments | 13 Oct 24 15:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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shrubble ◴[13 Oct 24 18:56 UTC] No.41830558[source]▶
A friend who works in embedded systems pointed out that XMODEM protocol communication is used everywhere in embedded; it may be that the protocol is more widely shipped now than it has been in the past!

Many Cisco, Adtran, Juniper etc switches and routers have it in their firmware also.

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1. HeyLaughingBoy ◴[14 Oct 24 20:59 UTC] No.41841927[source]▶
Yup, two years ago I worked with someone who was implementing it at the time. I think on an nRF52-series device, of all things.