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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Universal Serial Buss
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 12:28:47 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4j601f$t27@serpens.rhein.de>
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- waynem1@cq-pan.cqu.edu.au (Wayne Morellini) writes:
-
- >Hi USB is a new I/O buss standard, hopping to archeive simular results to
- >Apple's FireWire buss but at a slower speed and cheaper price (less than a
- >doller on the mother board).
-
- >Now what I would like to ask is anybody making one of these ports for the
- >Amiga, which would in future mean a source of cheap expansion (the port
- >could be used internally for hard drives I think
-
- Apple's FireWire bus is the basis of an IEEE industry standard, and
- it is backed up by even more companies.
-
- But I fear that the same shit happens as with IDE vs. SCSI and both
- "standards" will exist to defeat compatibility and to split the market
- for better sales on expensive "high end" parts.
-
- And if the marketing guys are clever they will introduce just so many
- proprietary elements so that the cheap I/O devices depend on Microsoft
- software.
-
- --
- Michael van Elst
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