From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 5 18:16:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA17540 for current-outgoing; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:16:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@japan-103.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.225.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA17532 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:16:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA01758; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 01:16:20 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 01:16:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: William Wong cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. In-Reply-To: <199708060109.SAA19780@wiley.csusb.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, William Wong wrote: > IMO, USB is too limited in bandwidth. I wish the "powers that be" would skip > it and move onto Firewire (IEEE 1394). I haven't followed the two standards closely at all, however all I know is that USB seems to be poppin up on more motherboards now for better or for worse. - alex P.S. sorry for the previous blank reply