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- From: waynem1@cq-pan.cqu.edu.au (Wayne Morellini)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Universal Serial Buss
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 08:24:18 GMT
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- Dave Haynie (dave.haynie@scala.com) wrote:
- : 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:
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- : 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.
-
- Yes but what about PCI video card for Video, yes it does have a consumer
- market for it though.
-
- But as far as those I/O ports, it is fast enough 10+Mbits for disk drives
- and slow H/D to.
-
- : 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.
-
- I suppose I've been comming from to much of a handheld perspective here, on
- a PDA it would be seriously good. But from a Marketing perspective and
- cost, it could be very cheaply added to the Amiga and the influx of cheap
- standard equipement (in the future) would be great. But I'm not against the
- FireWire, it's a great product, what do you estimate the cost to be of adding
- it to a system, and the amount of memory the driver would take?
-
- Wayne Morellini
- waynem1@cq-pan.cqu.edu.au
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