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From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2000 serial port != A1000 (ackkkk!)(and 500 || <> 1000 ||)
Message-ID: <24099UH2@PSUVM>
Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 10:01:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  3 10:01:46 1987
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In article <252@gethen.UUCP>, farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) says:
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>You'd better think again.  IBM is the ONLY microcomputer manufacturer
>that FOLLOWED the standard.  Go get a copy of the RS-232 document.  It
>states, as plain as day, that the DTE end of the connector has a male
>connector, and the DCE end has a female.  Since the computer certainly
>qualifies as DTE (after all, you're probably connecting the damn thing
>to a modem), it SHOULD have a male connector.  Due to the fact that
     
   And when you hook two computers together, which is DTE?
     
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