I hope USB 2 will help, but, of course, I'd need new peripherals to make use of it. Will watch developments for the next few years. Does the current Linux kernel support USB 2? Version 1 is just too slow to be much help.
Choppy > > If we can get past a hardware problem -- insufficient IRQs, we could > use higher > > speed hard drive access and perhaps a SCSI card for an additional CD-RW or > > such. Look forward to some manufacturer breaking that bottleneck, at > worst > > by a kludge like passing through an existing IRQ to another eight, as > is done > > in getting from 8 to 15, using IRQ 2 as a pass-through. > > > > Seems to me PC development is reaching limitations of architecture as much > > as limitations of component performance, but that's not an operating system > > question, unless someone thinks of a way to bypass a few bottlenecks by > > clever software design. > >USB? ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
