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- From: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- Subject: Re: Universal Serial Buss
- Sender: news@scala.scala.com (Usenet administrator)
- Message-ID: <1996Mar26.233001.10361@scala.scala.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 23:30:01 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- References: <4j2kn1$86o@janus.cqu.edu.au> <4j601f$t27@serpens.rhein.de> <4j7lm1$ku9@janus.cqu.edu.au>
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- In <4j7lm1$ku9@janus.cqu.edu.au>, waynem1@cq-pan.cqu.edu.au (Wayne Morellini) writes:
- >Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- >: waynem1@cq-pan.cqu.edu.au (Wayne Morellini) writes:
-
- >: Apple's FireWire bus is the basis of an IEEE industry standard, and
- >: it is backed up by even more companies.
-
- >Probably not in the end.
-
- >: 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.
-
- >Fire Wire is clearly superior technology, but USB will do the job and is
- >something less than a doller to add to the motherboard
-
- I think it's going to be more like SCSI vs. RS-232 than SCSI
- vs. IDE. USB is, potentially, a great replacement for serial and
- parallel ports, mouse and keyboard ports, that kind of thing. It would
- be great to take all that nonsense and reduce it to a single port, and
- then just run a USB wire to whatever needs it. But don't mistake USB,
- it's not fast for intense work like video.
-
- FireWire, on the other hand, isn't cheap, but it's up at a whole
- different level. It's faster, raw-transfer rate anyway, than SCSI-2
- FS, and that's in its slowest form, 100mb/s. And its speced up to
- 400mb/s, maybe more once the IEEE got through with it. I don't know
- that I would want to pay for the overhead of a FireWire mouse or
- keyboard, but I could seriously see stringing it around between
- digital video and audio equipment.
-
- There's a chicken-and-egg problem in both cases. USB's will be solved
- on price; if it's cheap enough, it can get into standard PC Clone
- SuperI/O chips without a problem. FireWire's gets solved by need --
- there's really no decent alternative, perhaps a few proprietary
- schemes, but it's already too late for them.
-
- Dave Haynie | ex-Commodore Engineering | for DiskSalv 3 &
- Sr. Systems Engineer | Hardwired Media Company | "The Deathbed Vigil"
- Scala Inc., US R&D | Ki No Kawa Aikido | info@iam.com
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