Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 03:47:51 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB drivers Message-ID: <199901300347.UAA22080@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <ML-3.3.917638332.4143.patl@asimov> from "patl@phoenix.volant.org" at Jan 29, 99 11:32:12 am
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> > So maybe a box with just a power connector, a FW port and a USB hub > > chip (to seperate the "A" and "B" devices). > > If you are talking about external connections, I think the Apple iMac > only has power, USB, and audio-out connectors. (I don't know what they > use for the internal devices; but I would suspect it's pretty standard > PCI with IDE/ATAPI, etc.) > > Of course, the iMac does have one big problem - there's no PowerPC > port of FreeBSD... It also has a nasty IDE interface, a nasty modem, a nasty ethernet port, a nasty ATI graphics chip, a nasty sound chip. So even if you bought a bare motherboard, you'd end up with all this useless, expensive crap nailed to it. If I needed any of that, I'd buy a USB or a firewire version, and plug in whatever I needed (and _only_ whatever I needed). I guess I could tolerate an SSD (solid state disk) socket... you never know when you could use 78M of disk with PicoBSD on it. Besides which, I'm pretty sure the motherboard is bigger than ``2.7" by 1.7" by .25" for a volume of about a cubic inch'' http://wearables.stanford.edu/ 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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