Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!aecom!naftoli From: naftoli@aecom.YU.EDU (Robert N. Berlinger) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: TCP/IP on MIDI? Message-ID: <2255@aecom.YU.EDU> Date: 11 May 89 18:59:09 GMT References: <1989May3.180345.6936@utzoo.uucp> <1989May5.155311.17997@utzoo.uucp> Organization: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY Lines: 18 In article <1989May5.155311.17997@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: > In article ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: > >You're not serious about IP over MIDI are you. It's major drawback > >is that MIDI is UNIDIRECTIONAL! ... > > So are most ring networks, at the wiring level. Same solution: tie the > end back to the beginning. MIDI devices often don't expect to hear their own traffic -- devices can feedback. To the general idea, MIDI over IP seems a more likely (and desirable) situation, and would be fairly easy to implement. -- Robert N. Berlinger |Domain: naftoli@aecom.yu.edu Supervisor of Systems Support |UUCP: {uunet}!aecom!naftoli Scientific Computing Center |CompuServe: 73047,741 GEnie: R.Berlinger Albert Einstein College of Medicine |Pan: berlinger AppleLink: U0995