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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MIDI/GAMES/etc (was Re: Serial)
Message-ID: <8801261645.AA04699@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 26 Jan 88 16:45:06 GMT
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:One nice thing is that by FOLLOWING the MIDI spec, Atari owners are
:able to use MIDI for networking. You just make a ring by going from
:the midi out of one machine to the midi in of another all the way
:around until you have completed the circle (just like musicians have
:had to do for years now hooking up their midi instruments to
:computers). It isn't the fastest net, but it is inexpensive and easy
:to set up (an ethernet connection is about $150 for the ST...but then
:you have to have something to hook up with.) It is plenty fast enough
:for networking 10 or so computers in a friendly(?) game of Midi-Maze.

	Er, I don't see the advantage.  Why not just connect the normal
serial port Rx and Tx in a ring?  Better, one or two chips and a connector
will make you an O.C. (Open Collector) connection and you have ethernet-style
rather than ring (which is costly to nodes when the nodes are microcomputers).

				-Matt