Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 09:22:29 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: wwong@wiley.csusb.edu (William Wong) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. Message-ID: <199708072352.JAA15985@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199708071735.KAA13907@wiley.csusb.edu> from William Wong at "Aug 7, 97 10:35:45 am"
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William Wong writes: >> >> >> On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> >>>>> Why would I want my mouse to transmit with 200 Mbit/s to my PC? >>>> >>>> WOW! That would be the RSI of the century I suppose. Lawyers beware ;-) >>> >>> Actually, maybe he has a mouse which delivers position updates in >>> microns - ever think of THAT? Huh? Huh?! :-) >>> >> >> The business idea of the century - let's make all mouses transmit data at >> the rate the present processors can not keep up so everybody upgrades... >>> -) >> >> Sander >> >> There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - >> all these are just illusions. >> >>> Jordan >>> >> >> >> > > Do we remember when Bill Gates stated just a few years back that no one > could possibly utilize all 640k of memory on the original IBM PC? > Unfortunately, history does repeat itself even to those who do remember > the past. :( If you think back a little harder, you'll recall that Bill Gates wasn't the bogey man back then. It was IBM. And they were the people who introduced the 640 kB limit. I was using 86-DOS before the introduction of the PC, and it had a 1 MB limit. Isn't it comforting to see that even Big Blue wasn't able to continue ruling the world? Greg
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