9 May
2000
9 May
'00
1:03 p.m.
As the speed of the bus increases and the ability to
contain the bus
interface in fewer chips increases the number of wires needed tends to go
down. Obviously two wires are easier to handle, terminate and connect
than 100. What also occurs is the simpler the bus the more sophisticated
the bus interface required, higher levels of integration feed that. It's
evolotionary. Think of USB and firewire as network buses and the devices
to connect them to things like printers and disks as "bridges".
Still, some buses will be hard fo the hobbiest to deal with due to the
specialzed logic needed.
Allison
Perhaps Firewire's a distant decendant of the DEC CI780 and HSC50
disk interface SDI cable.
Bill
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