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From: William Wong <wwong@wiley.csusb.edu>
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Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc.
To: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex)
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:09:00 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970805235622.288B-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> from "Alex" at Aug 5, 97 11:57:11 pm
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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
> 
> 
> 

IMO, USB is too limited in bandwidth.  I wish the "powers that be" would skip
it and move onto Firewire (IEEE 1394).

-- 
William T. Wong
Cal State University, San Bernardino
  Phone:   (909) 880-7281
  email:   wwong@wiley.csusb.edu