Carroll Grigsby wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Carroll Grigsby wrote:
>>> snip
It's left as an exercise for the reader to dissect a cable and settle
the crossover/straight-through/termination questions. My eyes are too
old for that kind of crap -- especially at this hour.
All one really needs to do is read the spec.
Mike:
Having started in the pre-CP/M era, I've always been skeptical about how
faithful manufacturers are in honoring specifications. (I've got a box
full of old RS232 cables and adapters. No two of them are identical.)
-- cmg
Well, Recommended Standard 232 was one of those which had
much more in it than most people needed, so a lot of the
pins got hijacked. It was the Standard people loved to
violate. A disc drive interface is (1) less generally
useful and (2) less amenable to hijacking for other
purposes.
Mike
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