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I would suggest that any move to remove support for a standard is misguided, for obvious reasons. RS232 will be around for a long time. The idea of "phasing out" is meaningless here - either we continue to support the standard because it will be around for a long time and is needed (which is what we will do), or we remove the standard from our supported set. One cannot "phase out" something like this because we are building systems that support a standard that is or isn't being used, we are not able to control what manufacturers use for communications. Thus manufacturers can "phase out" the standard if they wish, in the context of LMCE we cannot "phase out" anything. We either support it or do not, there is no process by which we can "phase out".
The crux of this thread appears to be the phasing out argument. Which conceptually doesn't make any sense unless you feel that adding new supported standards and leaving old ones in place is by implication phasing them out. Either way, the argument appears to be specious, and so the thread should stop here with the statement that 232 needs to continue, and new standards should be added. Any further discussion would appear to be "troll"ing....
