Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 12:20:32 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG Cc: UCTC Sysadmin <support@transbay.net>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB ports replacing legacy ports on new machines Message-ID: <30114.972818432@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 29 Oct 2000 00:04:20 MST." <ML-3.4.972803060.2102.patl@asimov.phoenix.volant.org>
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In message <ML-3.4.972803060.2102.patl@asimov.phoenix.volant.org>, patl@Phoenix .Volant.ORG writes: >I expect them to peacefully coexist for quite a while I agree. But thinking that technical parameters has anything to do with which one survives is naïve. One is backed by Intel, the other by Apple. In the end it will be decided by who of those two is able to foster the biggest market by supporting their pet standard on motherboards etc etc. And of course, until the M$ debuggers support firewire out of the box, firewire has a significant up-hill battle to fight. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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