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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: TCP/IP on MIDI?
Message-ID: <4076@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 4 May 89 13:25:44 GMT
References: <1989May3.180345.6936@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <1989May3.180345.6936@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> Has anyone ever played with the idea of doing TCP/IP over MIDI lines?

MIDI is one-way... there's no return path for acks. Why not just leave the
MIDI adapter out of the loop and run the baud rate up on your RS232 SLIP?

(one reason a fast serial port that can be trivially adapted to MIDI levels
is more useful than a dedicated MIDI port.)
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