3 May
2012
3 May
'12
7:15 p.m.
On 03/05/12 9:51 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
I can count on you EEs to not let anyone get away with it.
That's one of the minor issues. But the main point is that PS/2 was
specialised anyway - can only deal with a narrow set of devices, and is
fickle about those, while USB lets you connect virtually anything
(handwaves details) so the potential exists to reduce the number and
diversity of sockets. That's my opinion, anyway :)
--Toby
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.