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In article <625@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>midi networking would be fast enough for print sharing and network applications
>such as midi-maze. if we could beat the centronix port into being 2way we
>could do reasonable disk sharing. however, i think that the first 2 applications
>alone might be worth the effort.
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>Greg Lindahl                                       internet:  gl8f@virginia.edu
>University of Virginia Department of Astronomy     bitnet:  gl8f@virginia.bitnet
>     "Doesn't Quayle know that the FBI handles doesmetic assassinations?"
I add: only if it's an ascii printer; a Postscript laser would choke a MIDI
net.  And I thought the centronics port was two way (with a proper xbios call).

A MIDInet would never pass muster as a real net, but it is a cheap step up
to one.  You could implement mail, and net based games :) and other useful
functions.  You could also do file transfers relatively quickly without 
having to rig up a null modem.  3.5KB/sec is not exactly inconvenient if it
is done only occasionally.

Now all we need is a standard ;-)


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