2 Dec
2005
2 Dec
'05
11:55 p.m.
On Fri, December 2, 2005 1:52 pm, Jules Richardson said:
a GUI on top by people who probably know more about
the game than anyone
else,
and supposedly the integration between the two is very good.
Works for me,
(I don't dispute that there's a huge market
for them from people who just
want
a machine for everyday office-type apps. Just wish there was a version
with more connectivity for us hacker types! :)
That'll be the tower G3 or G4 then.....several PCI slots available for
whatever you want, yes you have to buy add-on cards but I doubt they'll be
expensive. As for OS support I was fairly gobsmacked to find that a G3
with OS9 will recognise my Compaq CRT, NEC LCD and USB several-button
mouse without me having to do anything.
It never seems to do things quite as well as native
ports - e.g. I could
add
various USB-to-whatever adapters, but they'd likely be flaky and not
particularly efficient.
Naah. Perhaps back in the dark days of 'new' USB 1.0 but in the last 4 or
5 years it's been grand. Remember USB features many things dragged over
from the Atari SIO so it has a good legacy.....
every external device, even though they all do
different things and run at
different speeds", and somehow it became reality. Nobody learned from the
SCSI
years (where it typically becomes a disaster if connecting anything other
than a storage device :)
Not quite, Apple came up with their implementation of the serial IEEE 1394
bus and called it 'firewire', all of a sudden the PC people were playing
the catch-up game again.
The thing that I haven't read much about yet is the relationship between
said Atari SIO, USB and the first Firewire implementation. I think we're
safe to assume that Firewire scared the PC brigade. Anyone with more
intimate knowledge care to comment?
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adrian/witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?