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From: czei@cbdkc1.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Amiga and MIDI
Message-ID: <2632@cbdkc1.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 87 14:24:16 GMT
References: <2568@gryphon.CTS.COM> <2618@cbdkc1.ATT.COM> <2267@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: czei@cbdkc1.UUCP (Michael S. Czeiszperger CB 1L334 x4952 ADMIN)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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In article <2267@tekig4.TEK.COM> brianr@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Rhodefer) writes:
>Michael S Czeisperger: "...Midi is less of a standard than RS232..."
>
>Oh, Noooo!  It can't be THAT bad, can it?
>
Oh, whoops!  I didn't really mean that!  I was trying to imply that 
RS-232 is more of a general protocol that you'd want on a computer,
where MIDI is specialized so that it can only be used for music.  If
you had a computer with only MIDI ports, you wouldn't be able to easily
connect to a variety of generic hardware devices like printers and
digitizers, to name a few.  You are right that MIDI is a little more
defined that RS-232.

  
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