Yes, me. But old modems? Two months ago I was integrating a 5G modem into a bare metal embedded application. AT is also used for the WiFi and Bluetooth chips/modems we use. AT commands on two- or four-wire RS232. Not everything is Linux and PCI/USB.
Same boat. A few years back I spent a summer living off LTE internet (before it was cool!) using a Sierra Wireless USB modem bodged into barely working with the help of pirated reference docs. Man am I glad that I gave up on that idea -- the OG AT protocol is, indeed, a totally obtuse crock of shit to the point where, honestly, it barely even qualifies for the moniker of "protocol" at all.
Same here, had a client ask for an AT command set to have a brand new nRF52 talking with a Cortex-M3 running some other legacy code.
Yes, this is a brutally poor choice of name. The AT command set is not only well known to virtually every computer person on the planet and has been for 40+ years, it is also not even obsolete but in constant use everywhere on the planet. Just... please change the name of whatever this is.
I work in IoT and write firmware, among other things, that talk to modems. I got really excited to explore a good, in-depth analysis of why the Hayes AT command set is terrible (because it objectively is), instead, we were treated to complaining about a relatively obscure social network API.
Not even old modems, AT is still used everywhere. Just about every modem I've bought off Sparkfun uses AT.
Definitely it rang as Hayes AT command set to me ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_AT_command_set ). So I was kind of expecting a dig into those commands which I recently had to relearn again for automobiles OBD-2 :)
Yes, I was expecting an explanation in the comments why it is not a crock of shit because back in the day we had only very few bytes to communicate and the "young kids" today don't know what they have etc...
I was expecting an old old rant about winmodems and stuff
Naming the new federated protocol AT / @ is a bad idea.
Yes. I even started to hear the noises.
Yes. I was very confused for a second.
I typed in AT commands today to connect to my mobile provider. YMMV. (In fairness it's only because I hosed my ModemManager config earlier this week and haven't had time to figure out what I did wrong yet, but still.)
Yes and the expletive fits
> Anyone else read "AT protocol" and thought of old modems?
Almost. AT yes, but not protocol. I always considered it to be a user interface.