From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 29 11:32:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29687 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:32:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29677 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:32:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 106JeP-0002Ny-00; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:32:21 -0800 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA12905; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:32:13 -0800 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:32:12 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: USB drivers To: Terry Lambert cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199901290322.UAA15376@usr07.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This is probably more appropriate to -hardware, but... > > Anyone considered building a PC whose only means of talking to > the world is a USB port? > > It looks like there are about 100 different monitors that do USB > now, and with a keyboard and a mouse and a disk and an ADSL modem > all hung off of USB... > > Anyway, Amancio says he'd prefer FireWire for the monitor (at it's > slowest, FW can transfer 68 Mbits/S more a second than PCI!), but > of course he's a video geek. 8-). > > So maybe a box with just a power connector, a FW port and a USB hub > chip (to seperate the "A" and "B" devices). If you are talking about external connections, I think the Apple iMac only has power, USB, and audio-out connectors. (I don't know what they use for the internal devices; but I would suspect it's pretty standard PCI with IDE/ATAPI, etc.) Of course, the iMac does have one big problem - there's no PowerPC port of FreeBSD... -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message