Post AyjpfhrdalLLh7DbbE by hanshuebner@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AyjkJjhNahfpF67n72 by hanshuebner@mastodon.social
2025-09-30T10:55:58Z
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@Kroc You're telling me that HID manufacturers would have been willing to put $20 firewire controller chips into their mice and keyboards and use high speed capable signaling cables, but it was the licensing cost that they shied away from? Interesting.
(DIR) Post #AyjkJkzUmpl7FZblzM by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-09-30T16:09:47Z
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@hanshuebnerWhen in that era did the cost of silicon not plummet with volume? @Kroc
(DIR) Post #AyjnDzyUSpwbqY5GOu by hanshuebner@mastodon.social
2025-09-30T16:42:22Z
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@tomjennings @Kroc I'm not saying that silocon cost was plummeting. In hindsight, it is easy to say that silicon complexity would not have mattered because of that. In reality, however, design decisions are always dominated by the actual availability of technology at the point of time of desired market entry.
(DIR) Post #AyjotmiiEZt6r5C1i4 by Archivist@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-30T17:01:01Z
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@Kroc @hanshuebner so, Intel indeed knew it was bad design, from the start. The point was for USB to be a cheaper alternative. That is the reason why it was not a reversible cable: less copper, less cable. That is the reason it was bad and slow: making it as cheap as possible. It was a price war from the start
(DIR) Post #AyjpfhrdalLLh7DbbE by hanshuebner@mastodon.social
2025-09-30T17:09:44Z
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@Archivist @Kroc It is easy to make "good" things given unlimited resources. Good engineering yields things that work within existing constraints.
(DIR) Post #Ayk7efvj5zGIa6myLQ by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-09-30T20:31:19Z
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@hanshuebner OK, true enough. The entry price diff could and did kill many new things.@Kroc