Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 21:04:37 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: William Wong <wwong@wiley.csusb.edu> Cc: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex), current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. Message-ID: <199708060404.VAA10213@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 05 Aug 97 18:09:00 -0700. <199708060109.SAA19780@wiley.csusb.edu>
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>> > >> 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.
>IMO, USB is too limited in bandwidth. I wish the "powers that be" would skip
>it and move onto Firewire (IEEE 1394).
Only if FireWire can be made as cheaply, or more cheaply, for the same
components. If they can't be made very cheap, they won't ever get
built into common main-stream stuff.
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