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FireWire Ports

The computer includes two external FireWire IEEE 1394 ports on the rear panel of the enclosure. The features of the FireWire ports are:

The FireWire hardware and software provided with the computer are capable of all asynchronous and isochronous transfers defined by IEEE standard 1394-1995. Developers of FireWire peripherals are required to provide device drivers.

It is possible to connect two computers to each other using a FireWire cable, but no software is provided to make use of such a connection. Also, third-party software such as video editing applications may not deal gracefully with a shared FireWire peripheral if two or more computers attempt to communicate with it at the same time.

FireWire Connector


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