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To   : Martin Prieto
From : Scott Little
Date : Tue Aug 15 2000 01:11 am

 [ 14 Aug 00 01:36, Martin Prieto wrote to Scott Little ]

 SL>> a) that doesn't make it defective
 MP> Serial ports are sure very very old. What? No, I didn't heard the word
 MP>  "innovation".

huh?

 MP> I don't know, everybody complains about. A friend of mine is working
 MP> with about 200 Mac (or less), G4 and iMac. He says that they don't
 MP> work after a couple of times, guaranteed.

Well, if you haven't guessed by now, I don't have much patience for Mac. 
<theory type=conspiracy>it would be in Apple's best interest to implement USB 
crappily so they can push their own Firewire interface</theory>

Here in the peecee world, USB is just sweet. In fact, I no longer buy any 
non-USB peripherals (i've offloaded all my parallel/scsi crud to my sister :)

 MP> 3Com NICs, video conferencing, digital photography, ISDN modems, hard
 MP> drives, HUBS, scanners, tape drives, wan't more?

the examples (ie. quotes) would be nice. being a high speed bus isn't what's 
important, that speed simply enables it to handle many devices with no impact 
(like for example, you wouldn't want latency between your mouse movements and 
keystrokes when playing a FPS). If they are pushing USB for individual high 
speed devices like video cameras, then they're completely misguided.

 SL>> That's what it was designed for..
 MP> Not precisely. Such a "high speed device" lost all of it sense if it
 MP> handles a lame keyboard.

Like I said before, it's *SPECIFICALLY* designed to replace all the low speed 
ports on any PC, like serial, parallel, PS/2 and KB. Merging all those ports 
into one single bus means you need much higher speed to keep the same level of 
responsivness.

12Mbs was enough for that, but some then along comes web cams, digital speakers 
and other such nonsense, and that 12Mbs started to look shabby. The jump to 
480Mbs will ensure those and any other comsumer level toys don't interfere with 
each other.

The above applications don't (IMO) justify the cost and technology (and the 
damn cable) of Firewire.. USB is plenty. Same argument as IDE vs SCSI regarding 
bang for the buck... the advantages of the 'superior' technology are wasted on 
all but the most serious users.

Even Apple agrees with me :)

 MP> You mean a "centralized point for configuration"? Every OS has that,
 MP> under Linux that would be the /etc directory. What any other OS
 MP> doesn't have is one file for the whole shit.

exactly.

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