From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jul 6 09:11:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA21637 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 09:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA21632 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 09:11:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id BAA24296; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 01:34:38 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199607061604.BAA24296@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: USB (was Re: Hi-speed serial input for Pagesat HS-2000?) To: aledm@routers.co.uk (Aled Morris) Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 01:34:38 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freefall.freebsd.org, admin@ftcnet.com, mrm@marmot.mole.org In-Reply-To: <199607061526.QAA08274@deputy.pavilion.co.uk> from "Aled Morris" at Jul 6, 96 04:27:05 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Aled Morris stands accused of saying: > > All this talk of high speed serial and no one has mentioned USB? > It hasn't been hyped yet, so the clueless nothings haven't heard about it, and those of us that have the spec have probably realised that nobody is going to be rushing to produce hardware to talk to it in the same price bracket as either async modem/TA's, or in the first instance Ethernet units. The code and hardware to talk USB aren't significantly simpler or cheaper than the same components for Ethernet, and everything can talk ethernet, wheras only a very small number of Intel-based PC's talk USB. I see no competition in the short to medium timeframe. If you haven't retrieved and read _carefully_ the USB spec, I'd suggest doing so before swallowing the dribble about it being the be-all and end-all of desktop interfaces. The lack of small silicon for target applications at this stage is very worrying too; I'd much prefer to go with one of (say) Crystal's new single-chip Ethernet solutions. > Aled -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[