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Re: MIDI Interface

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From: Kyler Laird
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 1990 20:45
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In article <10268@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> whinery@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu (Alan Whinery) writes:
>Whoa! Although the serial port and serial device on the mighty Amiga can 
>handle the 31,250 baud necessary for MIDI, most other machines (for 
>instance, IBM & compatibles generally cannot. You will find that the 
>serial handler in MS-DOS is not capable of higher than 19200 baud, not

1) Some programs push the serial port to 56K baud, no?

2) I've seen a MIDI adapter for the (serial/parallel?) port of an IBM-compat.
	Looked like a good investment for my laptop - check Electronic Musician.
	(Probably had a driver to make it MPU-401 compat.)

--kyler
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From: lairdkb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird)
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Subject: Re: MIDI Interface
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Date: 13 Nov 90 20:45:39 GMT
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