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Re:ATDT relief by 3chelon on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @01:08PM (#18666181)
AT commands are still in use inside your smartphone. On an iPhone, when the main CPU wants communicate with the baseband chip to make a call or send SMS or whatever, it literally sends AT commands.

In fact, one of the earliest iPhone jailbreak exploits relied on a vulnerability in the AT command interpreter inside the baseband.

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Re:ATDT relief by kazinator on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @01:54PM (#18666633)
Commands that have to prefixed with AT are still in use. Most of the actual commands after the "AT" part are not recognizable to someone who knows dial-up modems; they have nothing to do with the Hayes set other than the AT prefix/misfeature.
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Re:ATDT relief by 3chelon on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @03:05PM (#18667280)
Yeah, that's what always confused me about it when I worked on GSM phones back in the mid-2000s - if you're going to overload an old protocol so heavily, it's time for a new one.
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Re:ATDT relief by emmelaich on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @06:15PM (#18668553)
Probably nostalgia! That would be good enough for me.
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