OVERRIDING M.I.D.I.

[Dan Higdon]

> A friend of mine suggested TCP/IP as a transport layer... MIDI to

Assuming you actually mean Ethernet (TCP/IP is a software protocol,
MIDI is a hardware transport mechanism, like Ethernet - interestingly,
you could implement TCP/IP over MIDI....), there are problems.

Ethernet only allows one message on the wire at one time, and all other
pending packets go into a timeout state.  This timeout doubles every collision,
and can cause some serious stalls on a busy system.  The LAST thing we
want is a new networking protocol that can cause near-random delays at
unpredictable times!  Ethernet just isn't good for realtime when it's heavily
loaded.  (Funny, MIDI's the same way... :-)

hdan