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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

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