Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:09:00 -0700 (PDT) From: William Wong <wwong@wiley.csusb.edu> To: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. Message-ID: <199708060109.SAA19780@wiley.csusb.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970805235622.288B-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> from "Alex" at Aug 5, 97 11:57:11 pm
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> > > > On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > > > > > >> cameras, network cards, cd-roms, DATs, ZIP/Jaz/SyQuest, scanners, > > >> printers, etc. > > > > > Ugh... network cards can pull 10mbs easily, cdroms can do 8mbs and > > >higher, Jaz drives can do 16mbs easily, and you are going to put all of > > >this stuff on a shared 12mbs bus? Ugh... > > > > It's pretty unlikely you'll be saturating all those devices at the > > _same_ time. And nobody is going to _force_ you to buy USB > > peripherals, if you have higher-demand situations. Standard PCI, > > SCSI, and in the future FireWire, devices will still exist for server > > situations. > > That and don't most motherboards have two USB busses so you could put the > network adaptors on one, and perhaps a cdrom, then the hdds on the other > bus and still get decent performance. > > - alex > > > IMO, USB is too limited in bandwidth. I wish the "powers that be" would skip it and move onto Firewire (IEEE 1394). -- William T. Wong Cal State University, San Bernardino Phone: (909) 880-7281 email: wwong@wiley.csusb.edu
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