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- From: "Florian Faber" <faber@faba.han.de>
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 21:24:37 +0100
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- Subject: Re: Universal Serial Buss
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- Organization: watzmann softwerk
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- DH> Probably
- DH> because "FireWire" sounds so much cooler than Yet Another IEEE magic
- DH> decoder ring number.
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- Of course. :^)
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- DH> >A 1394 physical interface device will cost less than $10 (1000
- DH> >quant.), so it's pretty cheap.
- DH> When? Folks are selling PCI boards for quite a bit. TI has a chip set
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- What folks? I only know that Skipstone have boards.
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- DH> that's just under $100 in some quantity. Sure, this will come, but
- DH> it's far more likely to hit low cost once the controller is
- DH> intergrated into normal system chips.
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- Apple said their controller would use ~7000 Gates rather than 130000 Gates
- in their current SuperIO (+ FIFO gates, of course).
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- DH> >Actually it's speced up to 1Gbit/s and it's fully backwards
- DH> >comptaible.
- DH> Is it. The last I had heard, the specs only called for 400Mbps using
- DH> today's signalling conventions.
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- "Serial Express", as Apple uses to call it, is speced yet, yes.
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- Flo
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- NP: Operation Ivy - Sound System
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