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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.112426.16621@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <1991Apr10.133943.5922@cc.helsinki.fi> <1991Apr16.010601.21737@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Apr17.180211.15262@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 11:24:26 GMT

In article <1991Apr17.180211.15262@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
>   How would a midi port help out? I keep on hearing that the nExt was
> designed with some special sound ports.

The point is that MIDI is a 31kb serial interface, and handling MIDI in
is something that puts the pressure on context switch times and the like.

>   When I met Leo Schwab, we were talking strictly about the CDTV and how
> he helped with some software. He mentioned that CDTV has a MIDI port, but
> I am still not sure if he said that by mistake. Even if it does have a midi
> port, is there any known amiga software to support it?

Yes, from Deluxe Music on all real Amiga music software has supported MIDI.
MIDI is a 31kb serial interface, and every Amiga comes with one of those.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
