From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 29 13:55:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18250 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 13:55:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from singularity.enigami.com (singularity.enigami.com [208.140.182.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18236 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 13:55:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ckempf@singularity.enigami.com) Received: (from ckempf@localhost) by singularity.enigami.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id QAA22422; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:55:21 -0500 (EST) To: Tony Finch , FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB drivers References: <36ADD73B.1F2DAA38@softweyr.com> From: Cory Kempf Date: 29 Jan 1999 16:55:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: Tony Finch's message of "Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:59:36 +0000" Message-ID: Lines: 37 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FWIW: http://wearables.stanford.edu/ http://www.research.digital.com/wrl/itsy/index.html IIRC, they are not USB, but they could well be. (for those not interested in looking, two references to palmtop linux boxes) Tony Finch writes: > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > >Anyone considered building a PC whose only means of talking to > >the world is a USB port? > > It'd be rather crippled with only 12Mbit/s of IO. Really? Ethernet 10 Mb/s. Modems <56kb/s. T1 1.54Mb/s. Put a web server on the box, a T1, and a USB disk drive, and it should still be able to saturate the T1. And that is assuming only one USB port. Some of us wish we HAD a T1 to saturate. +C -- Thinking of purchasing RAM from the Chip Merchant? Please read this first: Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development ckempf@enigami.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message