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From: dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Running MIDI at 500KHz -- conclusions
Summary: :-{
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Date: 9 Mar 90 21:56:13 GMT
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Well, the situation looks pretty bleak.  I've gotten the MIDI port to
run at 500KHz without hanging the machine, but the connection is too
noisy (to say the least).  I set things up so that I'd type on one
machine and look at the output on the other.  Ever set your modem to
the wrong baud rate in the middle of a session?  Well, that's about
what it looks like on the receiving end.  Garbage!

I can only assume that the opto-isolators won't handle 500K baud.  It
doesn't seem like a software problem.

Dave Baggett
dmb@cscwam.umd.edu