On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Mike Feher wrote:
  similar. 422 by the way is specified to go almost 1000
feet, while with 232
 you are lucky to get over 10 feet. Regards - Mike 
That's not true.  Serial cable can go for a good many feet before the
signal breaks down (someone should pipe in with actual data ;)
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