From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 5 18:29:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA17964 for current-outgoing; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:29:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA17949; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:29:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0wvuu7-0005Ap-00; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:28:47 -0700 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:28:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" cc: Tom , Atipa , sthaug@nethelp.no, hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. In-Reply-To: <199708052328.QAA07056@MindBender.serv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 Just copy files from the CD-ROM or Jaz to the ethernet, or from the ethernet to the Jaz and you will _easily_ max USB. It is quite likely that someone will do this kind of stuff. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net > --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- > NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, > Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... > NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Tom