From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Oct 29 10: 5: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62BF637B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 10:05:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 13pwpH-00076P-00; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 10:04:59 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA03158; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 10:04:33 -0800 (PST) From: patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 10:04:33 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG Subject: Re: USB ports replacing legacy ports on new machines To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: UCTC Sysadmin , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <30114.972818432@critter> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 29-Oct-00 at 03:20, Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@critter.freebsd.dk) wrote: > But thinking that technical parameters has anything to do with > which one survives is na=EFve. I've had way too much personal experience with better technology falling to something that has managed to garner wider support. > One is backed by Intel, the other by Apple. In the end it will be > decided by who of those two is able to foster the biggest market > by supporting their pet standard on motherboards etc etc. It was my impression that both had wide enough support for that to not be an issue. The Firewire standard and implementation (chipsets) lagged USB; but I expect that soon most motherboards will come with both; just like most now come with on-board USB. I'm perfectly willing to admit that I'm probably not following the issue closely enough though... > And of course, until the M$ debuggers support firewire out of the > box, firewire has a significant up-hill battle to fight. I'm not sure I see why debuggers would need explicit support. But then I avoid Windows as much as possible... -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message