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>In article <4840.tnews@basso.actrix.co.nz> dgold@basso.actrix.co.nz (Dale Gold) writes:
>Quoted from - cs161fhn@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou):
>> On my room mate's Amiga, he plugs a little box into his serial port
>> and voila! he's got MIDI in, out, and thru.
>> [...]
>> Why can't you do this on an IBM?  What does the Roland MPU-401 
>> have that a modified serial interface doesn't?  
>
>A friend of mine has built an IBM interface based roughly on my homemade
>Amiga box. The problem is that all (?most?) of the good IBM software
>is designed for the MPU-401, which has a lot of built-in features. Don't
>ask me what they are! :-) My friend is going to write his own s/ware, so
>for him, it's not a problem.
>
>> What does the Amiga serial interface have that the IBM's doesn't? 
>
>Basically, nothing. My old A1000 has a source of power through the serial 
>port - I think this was eliminated in the 500-3000 range. Otherwise, 
>there's nothing unusual in the Amiga port.
>

Not quite true.  The A1000 is capable of generating the 31.25 baud signal
for midi.  Most clone serial ports are not capable of this.

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