From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 6 00:24:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA05525 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 00:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from counterintelligence.ml.org (mdean.vip.best.com [206.86.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA05504; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 00:24:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jamil@localhost) by counterintelligence.ml.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA00229; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 00:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 00:22:45 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" cc: Tom , Atipa , sthaug@nethelp.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. In-Reply-To: <199708052328.QAA07056@MindBender.serv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If usb was runnning at 800mbps i'd throw away all scsi drives and use it for everything. 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. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net > --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- > NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, > Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... > NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >