Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 01:22:30 -0700 (PDT) From: William Wong <wwong@wiley.csusb.edu> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. Message-ID: <199708080822.BAA09165@wiley.csusb.edu> In-Reply-To: <199708072352.JAA15985@freebie.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Aug 8, 97 09:22:29 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 > > > Yeah, but MS is the one that popularized the IBM PC. Besides, it's more fun picking on Bill. :) Nothing good seems to come out of MS. MS just goes around absorbing technology from smaller companies. I actually have more respect for IBM; Their R&D isn't all that bad... -- William T. Wong Cal State University, San Bernardino Phone: (909) 880-7281 email: wwong@wiley.csusb.edu
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