🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <34700002@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>...
>I dream for the day that RS-232 and V.35 connectors are banned and the
>designers of them flogged and hung.
>
>--Phil howard--  <phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>

There was a time when I had created my own standard, which I (pride showing
here, sorry) called CDC-232 (my legal initials are CDC...) since I got so
doggone tired of the variations RS 232 allowed you.  Lets see, male DCE,
no, its a male DTE, no, its a female DCE.... NO! Wait! its a female DTE...
ARRGGHHH!!!  I finally built my own version of a breakout box.  What a pain
the RS 232 'standard' can be.  (Note to nit-pickers - sure, its really
called RS-232-C (I think), but (1) lots of 'rs232c' equipment does not
really abide by the standard, and (2) even if they did, there are 4
different ways you could wire a 'standard' RS-232-C connector.  So you
need 4^2 or 16 different cables to be able to hook any 2 'standard'
devices together.  YUCK!  I would not mind using a 25-pin connector
for just 8 signals (including ground) if I could make *ONE* cable
that would do the job in all cases.  Too bad they did not at least
standardize on one sex for the connector on equipment so we would
only need 4 cables (assuming that you wire up a cable for each 
possibility, an addmitedly poor assumption).  Then, of course you
have the equipment which is wired as a DTE, *except* that it has
the signals on pins 2 and 3 reversed from the standard :-(

Well, enough whining for now.  Sorry this is so late in the thread,
our usenet feed is temporarily down.....

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