On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 16:37, Chopin Cusachs wrote: > > I hope USB 2 will help, but, of course, I'd need new peripherals to make use > of
You do not need new peripherals... As I said there are adapters for these. Ex. you have a parallel printer... Buy a usb to parallel adapter and you can print via USB. Works on linux also. USB 1 is just fine for printing/serial ports. The only thing that is too slow on USB 1 is mass storage devices. After all a parallel printer is probably slower than USB anyway. Don't remember the exact speed..? Shannon > 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. > ================================================ -- __________________________________________________________________ Shannon Roddy California Institute of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] LIGO Livingston Observatory ph: (225)686-3106 19100 LIGO Lane fx: (225)686-7189 Livingston, LA 70754 ================================================ 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. ================================================
