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From: ccasttd@pyr.gatech.EDU (Tom Dixon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2000 serial port != A1000 (ackkkk!)(and 500 || <> 1000 ||)
Message-ID: <4366@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 23:54:15 EST
Article-I.D.: pyr.4366
Posted: Tue Nov  3 23:54:15 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 10:10:41 EST
References: <1962@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> <610@louie.udel.EDU> <2548@cbmvax.UUCP> <1903@crash.CTS.COM> <252@gethen.UUCP> <24099UH2@PSUVM>
Reply-To: ccasttd@pyr.UUCP (Tom Dixon)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
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In article <24099UH2@PSUVM> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
>In article <252@gethen.UUCP>, farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) says:
>>
[serial port discussion]
>>... 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?
>     
>Everyone should own a gender changer.
>     
 
While everyone should have a gender changer, when hooking two computers
together, you should have a cross DTE cable.  And if using two A-'s
it is irrevelent what sex the computer has, you still need a same sex
cable to mate them.

Standards are standards.  And if Comm- had followed the serial port standard
in its computers, we wouldn't have the 500/1000/2000 compatibility
problem we have now.  Without standards, we would have never had an      
industrial revolution and where would we be now?

Food for thought... (thought of new products)