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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Serial
Keywords: Serial, null modem, rs-232
Message-ID: <1901@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 88 18:16:17 GMT
References: <2287@crash.cts.com> <945@polyslo.UUCP> <332@splut.UUCP> <1407@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
Lines: 20
Posted: Thu Jan 21 10:16:17 1988

In article <1407@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
.In article <332@splut.UUCP>, stu@splut.UUCP (Stewart Cobb) writes:
.>    - easy to connect (like modular phone jacks)
.>    - easy to use (smart six-year-olds can hook it up)
.>    - fast (say, 56 kbps)
.>    - standard (everyone uses it, and they all use the same "it")
.>    - backward compatible (to some extent, anyway)
.
.How about Midi? It's something like 30 kbps, it's become a standard, and
.you can hook RS232 stuff up with minimal hacking, either way. An RS232 to
.Midi adaptor costs about $50, so you don't even have to get rid of your
.RS232 equipment.

Except for the minor detail that MIDI is not bidirectional.  It's a one-way
link.  But then you can do what the MIDI people do, and use one cable
for send, and one for receive.  The Atari ST achieves a bidirectional
link (when using it for networking) presumably by diverging from MIDI spec.

Keith Doyle
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