on 5/10/01 12:40 PM, James Jarvie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone please explain (in simple terms) what
Firewire is?
Hopefully I can make this simple.
Firewire is Apple's name for a connection technology that was designed to
replace SCSI. Firewire is also known as iLink (Sony's
Firewire in a nutshell, is much like a USB port, only it runs a LOT faster.
In some cases it runs faster than a SCSI-device. You don't see it
everywhere yet, because it's new technology (fairly) and not widely accepted
yet. FireWire is also hot-swappable.
You can find FireWire harddrives,
* James Jarvie [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 10 May 2001
| Can someone please explain (in simple terms) what
| Firewire is?
Firewire is Apple's trademark for their implementation of the IEEE 1394
specification. It is a fast (currently up to 400Mbps), inexpensive serial
interconnect bus for
firewire...is a bus like usb...but its faster and doesnt require a host...it
can connect two devices directly without the need a of computer whereas usb
requires a computer..firewire is like the unofficial new digital connectors
for new a/v devices...developed by apple..its also refered to as
