10 May
2007
10 May
'07
11:28 a.m.
Rumor has it that Pete Turnbull may have mentioned these words:
On 10/05/2007 17:47, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Yes, but is that actually USB's fault, or the device, or the Mac?
If Apple didn't fully follow the standard for USB stuff, then it'd be the
Mac's fault.
If the device manufacturer didn't follow a USB specification in making the
device, but "it works on a PC so close enough" -- that's not USB's fault
either - it's whomever made the device.
I have a USB->Serial device that works fine in Linux, AFAIK on a Mac (but
never tested - there are company drivers, tho) and under Win2K & XP...
except running DriveWire for my CoCo. In that one, single application, XP
will occasionally bluescreen right in the middle of my CoCo booting
NitrOS-9. Ungh. I'm *guessing* it's a driver issue.
I'm entertaining suggestions on a new USB->Serial dongle, as that's half of
what I bought the darned thing for... :-/
Just because USB isn't universal, may not actually be USB's fault... ;-)
However, I don't think it's a buss either, so it's still mis-named.
:-)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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As most of us have experienced, it doesn't
take much to break
"age-similar". Yes, I would expect that if I go out *today* and buy
any USB disk or printer and plug it into any PC bought *today* running
an OS I can buy or download *today*, it should "just work".
Hmm... but the whole world's not a PC (nor even a Vax :-)) A few weeks
ago I bought a few USB serial port adapters, and they work fine on a
variety of PCs running various versions of Windows. Not, though, on a
Mac, which doesn't even see them.