21 Apr
2025
21 Apr
'25
8:59 a.m.
I'm thinking in this case there was "industry practice." There were
other competing standards/conventions, and maybe whoever was asked or
decided to try to formalize whatever-the-Bell-DataSet is doing, perhaps
there were draft revisions of that for a while. Or they just didn't make
wide distribution, since there wasn't much need yet (early 60's few people
still had computers, let alone two of them to talk to each other over a
modem -- story was different towards the end of the 60's).
On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Of course, the question comes up. Which came first?
RS-232 or industry
practice?
This question is asked not infrequently in ANSI standards development.
Do we take something already in existence and slap a "standard" label on
it or do we invent something completely different?
--Chuck