standards and ATT

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In article <851 at sceard.UUCP> mrm at sceard.UUCP (M.R.Murphy) writes:
>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.  
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>This report is a genuine picking of nits, but one would expect AT&T to
>follow standards, wouldn't one?

For your information, the RS232 standard says NOTHING about connectors,
only the leads are defined.  In support of this, consider the fact that DEC
VT100 and Heath H19 terminals have DB25p connectors on their back ends
rather than the DB25s used by most other terminal manufacturers.

In other words, don't knock the developer of the standard for not following
what is not in the standard.

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Carl Brandauer
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