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Date:      Wed, 6 Aug 1997 22:54:22 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jamie@itribe.net (Jamie Bowden)
Cc:        daveh@tamis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc.
Message-ID:  <199708061324.WAA08882@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199708061244.IAA24112@gatekeeper.itribe.net> from Jamie Bowden at "Aug 6, 97 08:49:13 am"

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Jamie Bowden stands accused of saying:
> On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, David Holloway wrote:
> 
> > I see USB as another good way to 
> > get around the ever present "not enough irqs" problem
> 
> Damn, I was hoping for an intelligent bus design that gave each bus
> interface it's own dedicated data channel, like high end workstations
> have.

I'm not sure exactly what you're getting at here; from the top of the
USB stack, that's more or less the way it is.  The problem is just
that that stack is a fairly hairy animal; it has a lot of
functionality, but you pay for it.

I suspect you were referring to separate physical channels, no?

> Jamie Bowden

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