Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!grr
From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: TCP/IP on MIDI?
Message-ID: <6844@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 03:17:10 GMT
References: <1989May3.180345.6936@utzoo.uucp> <4076@ficc.uu.net> <1989May9.184646.2106@utzoo.uucp> <4135@ficc.uu.net> <1989May11.165157.23656@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1989May11.165157.23656@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> In article <4135@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >> No, it's the result of not conforming to the standards, pure and simple.
...
> >It certainly seems reliable and it interoperates quite happily with RS232 at
...
> >or do you just have a problem with the Amiga?
...
> I don't have anything in particular against the Amiga; I do have a serious
> dislike for people who violate standards simply because they think they can
> improve on them.  What matters is not whether it usually works, but whether
> it is *guaranteed* to work, even with strange new equipment.

In passing, please note that the Amiga does not violate standards more
than the average RS232 interface.  It simply omits the slew rate limiting
capacitors on the RS232 drivers, just like 30-70% of the other RS232
"compatible" devices out there.  And of course the baud rate generator can
be set to some interesting values.

Yes, reliablity in a general sense does suffer.  Depending on the FCC
treatment in the particular unit and the cable length, it may or may not
go that fast.  No promises...

Really there's no great problem with 38.4K local/direct connections,
but sadly, a lot of the common things like terminals, terminal programs
and dumb protocols can't seem to keep up.  The world is overfull of
terminals that won't display as fast at 9600 BPS without flow control
no matter how fast you set the bit rate to.

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)