Matt, much thanks for the correction to my inaccurate statement. If I'm not mistaken my 2.0Ghz G5 iMac has FW400--not FW800. Also the current minis have FW400 only. This is surprising since older models, i believe, had FW800--years ago. I could be wrong and I apaologize for not taking the time to check the specs, but that was really an aside. When speaking of 'concurrent network transmission' I didn't include WI-FI (80211.n specifically), mistakenly thinking this was a bit too slow. So, architecturally, for high speed transmission over a closed network neighborhood of say 9 minis, isn't there something like a "SuperSocket" that could co-ordinate these now '3' streams of info. Forgive me for drawing an analogy, but the third computer I ever worked on was designed by Seymour Cray and the engineers at the time commented 'we just keep on throwing PPU's at it and it doesn't even blink." All the current chips/busses are quite a bit more poweful than this cdc6600 that was sitting at Purdue in the late 60's and certainly should be capable of supporting this technique. So, again, thanks for the correction--which might be the 'death knell' of firewire? -em
On Thursday, July 17, 2008, at 07:04AM, "Matt Gough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 17 Jul 2008, at 1:41pm, em wrote: > >> Every computer that Apple sells contains both fire-wire as well as >> built-in Ethernet. Is there any generally re-useable technique >> (API?) for utilizing >> TCP/IP over both the built-in Ethernet connection as well as 'TCP-IP >> over firewire' for high-speed network transmission? >> thanks, > >Note - The MacBook Air does NOT have firewire. > >For those with Firewire you can set up a network interface to use it. >In the Network System Preferences you can add/Enable Firewire as a >connection. As for APIs, sorry don't know myself. > >Matt > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
