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Re:A brief history of USB, what it replaced, and what has fa... by agumonkey on Monday August 18, 2014 @07:20AM (#8192174)
So they go lower level ? some kind of `UDP` usb packets ?
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Re:A brief history of USB, what it replaced, and what has fa... by kalleboo on Monday August 18, 2014 @07:30AM (#8192198)
Mice and Keyboards use the "Human Interface Device" (HID) USB class.

MIDI devices use their own special class instead of HID: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/devclass_docs/midi10.pdf

Same as how printers or scanners aren't HID, MIDI is different enough that it needs its own protocol.

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Re:A brief history of USB, what it replaced, and what has fa... by agumonkey on Monday August 18, 2014 @02:32PM (#8193831)
Oh I see, I forgot there were other classes.
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