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- From: "Florian Faber" <faber@faba.han.de>
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 16:23:24 +0100
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- Subject: Re: Universal Serial Buss
- Message-ID: <65825465@faba.han.de>
- Organization: watzmann softwerk
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- WM> O.K. This looks good, except when it goes to the manufacture the
- WM> Firewire Buss could be thought of as a 30-100 doller option, whereas
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- You don't understand. FireWire is the name of Apple's project, Apple
- uses the IEEE 1394 bus. I talk about IEEE 1394, not about FireWire.
- A 1304 device uses *one* controller chip which costs less than $10
- (a host device, of course, needs an additional driver).
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- WM> USB could be thought of as a 10 doller option (meanning the base cost
- WM> might be low but what about the markup by the time it gets to retail).
- WM> But despite all that I might like to get both of them, so who's
- WM> making them for the Amiga or any other 68xxx based machine?
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- Why do you want to have an USB port? I don't think you understand the
- differences between USB and 1394.
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- Flo
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- NP: The Prodigy - Voodoo people
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