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- From: waynem1@cq-pan.cqu.edu.au (Wayne Morellini)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Universal Serial Buss
- Date: 30 Mar 1996 04:13:53 GMT
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- Florian Faber (faber@faba.han.de) wrote:
-
- : WM> : Apple's FireWire bus is the basis of an IEEE industry standard, and
- : WM> : it is backed up by even more companies.
- : WM> Probably not in the end.
-
- : Adaptec, AMD, Analog Devices, Apple, C&M Cable, Canon, Cirrus Logic,
- : Compaq, Connor, Creative Labs, Cypress, FujiFilm, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi,
- : IBM, Intel, Lexmark, Lucky/Goldstar, Matsushita, Microsoft, Mitsubishi,
- : Molex, National Instruments, National Semiconductor, NEC, Philips,
- : Robinson Nugent, Samsung, Seagate, SGS Thomson, Skipstone, Sony,
- : Stewart Connector, Sun, Symbios Logic, Texas Instruments, Thomson, Toshiba,
- : Truevision, Yamaha?
-
- : WM> Fire Wire is clearly superior technology, but USB will do the job and
- : WM> is something less than a doller to add to the motherboard (less what
- : WM> you save from not haveing those other ports),
-
- : No, I don't think so.
-
- : 1. 1394 costs less than $10
- : 2. USB is pretty useless for "multimedia applications" such as transferring
- : video oder audio data (no isochronous transfer mode)
- : 3. Microsoft has claimed to support 1394 (!)
- : 4. USB is not peer-to-peer
- : 5. USB causes host load, 1394 devices work independently
- : etc.
-
-
- : Have a look at:
-
- : http://firewire.org
- : ftp://ftp.apple.com/pub/standards/p1394
-
-
- : Flo
- : --
- : NP: Sonic Youth - sweet shine
-
- O.K. This looks good, except when it goes to the manufacture the Firewire
- Buss could be thought of as a 30-100 doller option, whereas USB could be
- thought of as a 10 doller option (meanning the base cost might be low but
- what about the markup by the time it gets to retail). But despite all that
- I might like to get both of them, so who's making them for the Amiga or any
- other 68xxx based machine?
-
- Wayne
-
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