> Half these problems would go away if USB and Bluetooth were like Wifi/Ethernet. Just a packet level protocol.
Every few years I have this thought:
If, instead of <X> on <Y>, we had just put more effort into Ethernet (and just Ethernet), we'd probably have reached <Z> by now.
Fiber Channel. USB. Thunderbolt. HDMI/DVI. SCSI/SATA. Bluetooth. BLE. Make wifi be ethernet over radio not the monster it is today.
Of the above, only Ethernet has the good grace to be driven by (relatively) simple software. It's also the only one that isn't getting obsoleted by the next complex thing coming along.
Re:Wireless Is a Trap
by Gibbon1 on Sunday June 21, 2020 @09:30PM
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One pain in the ass thing I had to do was write a driver to support talking to MODBUS devices. MODBUS is a 40 year old register based protocol. It's not going away. Most all thr other mixed protocols of it's vintage are long long long dead.
Every few years I have this thought:
If, instead of <X> on <Y>, we had just put more effort into Ethernet (and just Ethernet), we'd probably have reached <Z> by now.
Fiber Channel. USB. Thunderbolt. HDMI/DVI. SCSI/SATA. Bluetooth. BLE. Make wifi be ethernet over radio not the monster it is today.
Of the above, only Ethernet has the good grace to be driven by (relatively) simple software. It's also the only one that isn't getting obsoleted by the next complex thing coming along.