Re: MIDI cards

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From: Wayne Smith
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 00:48

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In article <Jan05.224636.36025@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> millerje@CS.ColoState.EDU (Jeff Miller) writes:
>The best advice I can give you would be to go for a MPU401 
>compatible.  This way you won't be limited when it comes to support (many
>shareware/freeware MIDI sw supports nly the MPU 401 standard)

What is "MPU 401" compatability?
MIDI is a serial data transfer of 31.5 kbaud.  What "magic" does an MPU
401 card do? Does it have a buffer? Does it have intelligence?  Has
anyone ever programmed it at a low level?  How many registers does it have?

Are we talking about a card that has half the complexity and functionality
of an IDE hard/floppy controller, but at 5 times the price?

Is there a Popular Electronics article on building your own MPU-401 card?

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Subject: Re: MIDI cards
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