standards and ATT

[M.R.Murphy]

We just got a bright, shiny AT&T 6386WGS with SV3.2 for evaluation.
It has an IPC802 intellegent ports card with 2 parallel ports and 8
RS232 serial ports. The serial ports have DB25s connectors rather
than DB25p connectors.  The cable that used to connect my modem
(a genuine DCE) to my other computer (a genuine DTE) doesn't fit into
the connectors on the IPC802 'cause they both have little holes rather
than one of the two of 'em having little pins and the other having
little holes.  What ever happened to standards?-) If things like this
keep happening, then nothing will ever connect to anything else without
little short adapters, or a maze of twisty little cables, all the same.
This report is a genuine picking of nits, but one would expect AT&T to
follow standards, wouldn't one?
--
Mike Murphy  Sceard Systems, Inc.  544 South Pacific St.  San Marcos, CA  92069
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