Date: Sun, 29 Oct 100 00:39:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Gregory Benjamin <gregb@laserlab.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB ports replacing legacy ports on new machines (fwd) Message-ID: <200010290739.AAA20496@carbon.laserlab.com>
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> I thought USB's speed limit was 400kbps. I can't see using USB for ethernet or disk. No, 12 mbps. today on any dime-store-variety PC or Mac. > From what I've read, Firewire is the better solution of the two. Way better throughput. > I have recently seen a hard drive with a firewire interface, FWIW. > If I read industry standard practice correctly from the retail point of view, > USB will be pumped up and sold out until the next "wonderful bus", a.k.a. > Firewire, is "discovered". It's only money. No, USB 2.0 is rated at 480 mbps. It is more likely that firewire (IEEE 1394) will fall by the wayside eventually (if USB 2.0 works as intended) o------------------------------------------------------------------------o | Gregory Benjamin Laserlab, Inc. o Laser photoplotting | | gregb@laserlab.com 6790 Top Gun Street o CNC machining | | Suite 9 o Chemical milling | | San Diego, CA 92121 o Printed Circuit Fabrication | | www.laserlab.com Tel: 858-646-7660 o Precision photomasks | | ftp.laserlab.com Fax: 858-646-7667 o AutoCAD to Gerber conversion | o------------------------------------------------------------------------o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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