From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 7 16:53:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA07975 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 16:53:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA07970 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 16:53:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id JAA07756; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 09:52:30 +1000 From: Greg Lehey Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id JAA15985; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 09:22:29 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199708072352.JAA15985@freebie.lemis.com> Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. In-Reply-To: <199708071735.KAA13907@wiley.csusb.edu> from William Wong at "Aug 7, 97 10:35:45 am" To: wwong@wiley.csusb.edu (William Wong) Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 09:22:29 +0930 (CST) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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