James Kosin wrote:
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Mike McCarty wrote:
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
Over reading many specs, I've found that they are to be used as
guidelines more than definitive absolutes.
Some manufacturers take the definitions literally, and some take a more
liberal approach to the specifications.
I have to agree with this. And I also agree that one cannot
rely on specs too much. I dunno how many pieces of equipment
I've written drivers for did *not* perform according to the
docs.
I wouldn't buy a disc cable which had a yellow connector on it,
though.
Mike
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