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From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Amiga and MIDI
Message-ID: <467@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 87 09:19:33 GMT
References: <2568@gryphon.CTS.COM> <2618@cbdkc1.ATT.COM> <2267@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: Sci-Fido - Unix in Oakland
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In article <2267@tekig4.TEK.COM> brianr@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Rhodefer) writes:
>If only all the originators/promulgators of RS232 had just one neck,
>and I could get my hands around it....

There is an RS-232 standard.  You can get it from (I think) the American
National Standards Institute.  I've got a copy somewhere around here
myself.  In that standard, everything having to do with an RS-232 interface
is defined, carefully, from the rise times of the signals to their meaning
to the pins and connectors they are supposed to go to.  If you've got to
wring anyone's neck, wring that of the 95% of the manufacturers who
decided that truly following the standard was too much of a pain in the
neck, so went off in their own direction, leaving us poor users to try
and patch up the differences.

-- 
Michael J. Farren             | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just 
{ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}!     | dogmatize it!  Reflect on it and re-evaluate
        unisoft!gethen!farren | it.  You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.arpa |     Tom Reingold, from alt.flame