Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 21:51:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: William Wong <wwong@wiley.csusb.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. Message-ID: <199708060151.VAA20961@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199708060109.SAA19780@wiley.csusb.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970805235622.288B-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> <199708060109.SAA19780@wiley.csusb.edu>
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<<On Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:09:00 -0700 (PDT), William Wong <wwong@wiley.csusb.edu> said: > IMO, USB is too limited in bandwidth. I wish the "powers that be" would skip > it and move onto Firewire (IEEE 1394). Everything that I've seen suggests that it's Intel that is pushing USB hard, and the peripheral vendors aren't very interested---they'd rather do 1394. Certainly that seems to be the case with the multimedia stuff I've seen glossies for. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick
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