Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:32:12 -0800 (PST) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB drivers Message-ID: <ML-3.3.917638332.4143.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <199901290322.UAA15376@usr07.primenet.com>
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> This is probably more appropriate to -hardware, but... > > Anyone considered building a PC whose only means of talking to > the world is a USB port? > > It looks like there are about 100 different monitors that do USB > now, and with a keyboard and a mouse and a disk and an ADSL modem > all hung off of USB... > > Anyway, Amancio says he'd prefer FireWire for the monitor (at it's > slowest, FW can transfer 68 Mbits/S more a second than PCI!), but > of course he's a video geek. 8-). > > 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... -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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