Xref: utzoo comp.sys.atari.st:11848 rec.music.synth:4831 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!franny.Berkeley.EDU!c91a-ra From: c91a-ra@franny.Berkeley.EDU (reader.john.kawakami) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,rec.music.synth Subject: Re: MIDI Networking Message-ID: <6427@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 13 Oct 88 08:03:16 GMT References: <3602@druhi.ATT.COM> <6424@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <594@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> <3277@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <5080@saturn.ucsc.edu> <625@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: c91a-ra@franny.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (reader.john.kawakami) Organization: JIT, John's Institute of Technocracy Lines: 23 In article <625@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes: >midi networking would be fast enough for print sharing and network applications >such as midi-maze. if we could beat the centronix port into being 2way we >could do reasonable disk sharing. however, i think that the first 2 applications >alone might be worth the effort. >---------- >Greg Lindahl internet: gl8f@virginia.edu >University of Virginia Department of Astronomy bitnet: gl8f@virginia.bitnet > "Doesn't Quayle know that the FBI handles doesmetic assassinations?" I add: only if it's an ascii printer; a Postscript laser would choke a MIDI net. And I thought the centronics port was two way (with a proper xbios call). A MIDInet would never pass muster as a real net, but it is a cheap step up to one. You could implement mail, and net based games :) and other useful functions. You could also do file transfers relatively quickly without having to rig up a null modem. 3.5KB/sec is not exactly inconvenient if it is done only occasionally. Now all we need is a standard ;-) TTL EXE MUX PRG A3I MTX TTP FOE TUS APP JTK MMU CRT VDI TOS DRI GEM CPM ACC OMV JOH NKA WAK AMI c91 a-r a@f ran ny. Ber kel ey. Edu kaw aka mi@ zen .Be kel ey.