23 Jul
2010
23 Jul
'10
11:34 a.m.
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:15:46 -0400
Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
My views on this aare well-known my now...
I really do not like USB.
Seconded.
It takes hundreds of cycles and more to
move a simple message, it's a host-based, not bi-directional design,
and it's only available on somewhat newish kit.
And: Many USB devices are
quirky. E.g. I can't get a break out of my
USB-RS232 adapters. The USB host bridge in my PeeCee has a bug that causes interrupt loops when a USB hub is connected and
a device from
the hub is disconnected. The USB connectors are cheap shitt. I often
get contact problems with USB A connectors.
After all: USB originates from intel. Did we ever get somthing well and
proper designed and engineered from intel?
Hmm.. I suppsoe the 1103 DRAM was pretty good for the time (even though
the logic levels were painful, it was the first 1K bit device). But
since then... Heck they are the only company to make a pig's breakfast of
designing a parallel interface chip....
-tony