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Re: Serial ports
>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Gormley <sgormley@mhv.net> writes:
In article <1.5.4.32.19960418001417.0068a664@pop.mhv.net> Scott Gormley <sgormley@mhv.net> writes:
Scott> I was just wondering if executor will eventualy access the
Scott> serial ports in the host machine, do you think that any one
Scott> will build an interface to mac style serial ports(local
Scott> talk?) just a thought. If this could happen it would be
Scott> cool so i could run mac sequencers(i am a recording
Scott> engineer) and use mac midi and sync boxes?
There are three separate questions here: raw serial port access,
localtalk through the serial ports and MIDI through the serial ports.
Raw serial port access will be implemented first.
I doubt that we'll ever support localtalk through the serial ports,
more likely we'll support AppleTalk through ethernet cards; they're
sufficiently common and cheap these days that using existing ethernet
based AppleTalk stacks is much easier than dealing with serial ports
for networking.
I'm not sure what we'll do about MIDI. We have an engineer we'd like
to hire and toss on all sorts of sounds stuff, including MIDI but
until we see where are money is coming from we can't predict when we
can get an engineer on board who is well versed in MIDI. I believe
some people have told me that some MIDI interfaces require only raw
access to serial ports, but I don't know if that's true or not.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
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