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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: Re: rts/cts - a tutorial on flow control
Message-ID: <1464@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-May-85 20:54:02 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 29 20:54:02 1985
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Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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In article <5633@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> > when they first started. Their 3101 terminal has a female 25 pin connector,
>> > which is wrong. ...
>> 
>> Why is a female connector on a DTE terminal port wrong???
>> As far as ASYNC-only devices go, a male DTE connector is quite rare.

My H19 is male. My VT100 is male. My VT220 is male. My IBM-PC serial
port is male. My IBM 7171 protocol converter is male. All my VAX serial
ports are male. All this equipment is DTE and conforms to the RS-232
standard. I don't think male DTE connectors are rare at all.
-- 
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