On 03/05/12 2:39 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
>>> Firstly, USB _requires- a microcontroller really.
On Thu, 3 May 2012,
Toby Thain wrote:
Because it's clearly simpler to have a single bus
and lose the
Are you SURE that you want to call it a "BUS"??!?
specialised connectors. Which PCs eventually did (long
after Apple did).
Knowing the difference between a keyboard and a mouse was stretching the
limits?
They had different shaped connectors. They color coded them!
Eventually, they just gave up and added an extrea microcontroller for
each, just so that people didn't have to insert the plugs into the jacks
that fit.