17 Oct
2006
17 Oct
'06
2:53 p.m.
On 10/17/2006 at 10:17 PM Jules Richardson wrote:
OK, so you can redirect stuff under DOS (or another OS)
once booted, but
that still means that on typical PC machines you get no feedback on the
boot
process until the OS has control...
Of course, even the original 5150 had a serial port--most people just tend
not to think of it as such. Namely, the keyboard interface. When the AT
came along, it was fully bidirectional.
Makes me wonder how well SCSI would have fared had it
been hot-pluggable
from the start, as that seems to be the main benefit of USB (even if the
Microsoft guys can't seem to get the software side of it right!)
You're forgetting how much voodoo factor there was to SCSI.
Cheers,
Chuck