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 < [email protected]> 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 > >
