Alan Cox wrote:
I thought firewire was the first serial connection that could beat
parallel buses like scsi - somewhere mid-90's. At least on consumer
equipment.
Depends what you define as 'consumer' so we've now got a narrow date
window and a narrow product range - keep trying. For servers fibrechannel
was the fast stuff and ethernet was faster than IDE/SCSI at various times.
For a rough cut, I'd define 'consumer' as costing less than $1,000 for
an interface card in the early days. So arcnet would have qualified
long before ethernet. Today, consumer stuff seems to be a few dollars
per interface and a few cents matters enough to omit firewire from a lot
of equipment in favor of less capable USB.
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Les Mikesell
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