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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: RS-232 protocol primer (long)
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Date: 26 Jun 89 18:55:25 GMT
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In article <1989Jun24.005740.19326@cs.rochester.edu> ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
|To add to the confusion, many terminal manufacturers (DEC especially)
|use the opposite type of connector from what most other people use. And

I beg to differ. DEC and IBM are some of the best vendors in terms of
complying with what there is of the RS-232 spec and their use of a
male connector is correct. What do you think DTE stands for? Data
Terminal Equipment. Doesn't a terminal sound as though it should be
classified as DTE? Just because HP and Wyse and Televideo and Adds get
it wrong doesn't mean everyone should do it wrong. 

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