>From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>

>Note that this is true of all terminal cables (with the possible exception
>of IBM PCs which are notoriously backwards and un-standard on all
>accounts).

Actually, PCs were surprisingly normal with RS232, perfectly vanilla DB25P
wired as DTE, just like what DEC uses.  Well, except that the original
IBM serial card could do 20 mA over the same connector if you reversed a
jumper block.  But it wasn't until the AT that they screwed everything up
with the crazy DB9s, just because those little board brackets don't have
space for two DB25s.

John Wilson
D Bit