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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: RS232 gender (was Re: Apple SCSI not compatible with standard SCSI?)
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Date: 2 Dec 89 05:18:15 GMT
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In <503@shodha.dec.com>, ridder@elvira.cxo3.dec.com (Hans Ridder) writes:
>RS-232 (now EIA-232) has, for quite a while specified the gender of
>connectors.  My copy of the standard, dated August 1969, says it on
>page 7 section 3.1.  The language is a bit difficult, but is basically
>gets around to saying that female connectors are for DCE's (modems),
>and male connectors are for DTE's (terminals and to most people,
>computers).  So, IBM followed the standard, not the bandwagon.

The last time I read the spec, which was when I made a statement about the
gender issue, and was corrected, it did not state the gender for the DTE. I
would be interested in knowing if your copy of the spec actually says that or
if you are just choosing to interpret it that way.

I am not interested in gender wars. I am interested in facts.

-larry

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