maccarle@ed.ecn.purdue.EDU (Carl A Maccarley) (12/25/87)
From Michael Czeiszperger's posting: >In article <2267@tekig4.TEK.COM> brianr@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Rhodefer) writes: >>Michael S Czeisperger: "...Midi is less of a standard than RS232..." >>Oh, Noooo! It can't be THAT bad, can it? >Oh, whoops! I didn't really mean that! I was trying to imply that >RS-232 is more of a general protocol that you'd want on a computer, >where MIDI is specialized so that it can only be used for music. If Just to add further confusion to this discussion... I'm pretty sure that EIA RS-232c is just a hardware spec, eg., voltage swing, line assignments, line loading, maximum line length, etc. I don't believe there's anything in the spec about transmission protocols, but I admit that the term RS-232 seems to have taken on a broader colloquial meaning. maccarle@ed.ecn.purdue.edu