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On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Alex wrote:

> 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.

  Hardrives?  You've got to be kidding... and get worse than IDE
performance?

  Remember, plain old SCSI-II is 10MB/s, which is works out to 80mbs!  USB
is only 12mbs.

  I see USB as a user input (mouse and keyboard) bus only.

> - alex
> 
> 

Tom