Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 23:57:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> Cc: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com>, sthaug@nethelp.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970805235622.288B-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199708052328.QAA07056@MindBender.serv.net>
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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
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