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- From: "Florian Faber" <faber@faba.han.de>
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 17:28:08 +0100
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- Subject: Re: Universal Serial Buss
- Message-ID: <65825472@faba.han.de>
- Organization: watzmann softwerk
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- DH> USB is, potentially, a great replacement for serial and parallel
- DH> ports, mouse and keyboard ports, that kind of thing. It would be great
- DH> to take all that nonsense and reduce it to a single port, and then
- DH> just run a USB wire to whatever needs it. But don't mistake USB, it's
- DH> not fast for intense work like video.
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- It's not just only _not_ fast for video, it's pretty useless for video
- and audio applications. It has no isochronous transfer mode like the
- IEEE 1394. And: Microsoft has annouced to support the 1394 bus.
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- DH> FireWire, on the other hand, isn't cheap, but it's up at a whole
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- FireWire is only one implementation of the IEEE 1394 bus system. I wonder
- why people mix up FireWire and IEEE 1394.
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- A 1394 physical interface device will cost less than $10 (1000 quant.),
- so it's pretty cheap.
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- DH> different level. It's faster, raw-transfer rate anyway, than SCSI-2
- DH> FS, and that's in its slowest form, 100mb/s. And its speced up to
- DH> 400mb/s, maybe more once the IEEE got through with it. I don't know
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- Actually it's speced up to 1Gbit/s and it's fully backwards comptaible.
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- DH> that I would want to pay for the overhead of a FireWire mouse or
- DH> keyboard, but I could seriously see stringing it around between
- DH> digital video and audio equipment.
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- It's time for AT to join the 1394 tradeoff organization, I would strongly
- suggest.
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- Flo
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