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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC )
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To: Dave Hanson who wrote (533)5/1/1998 12:56:00 AM
From: Howard R. Hansen  Read Replies (2) of 14778
 
One thing I have notice on this thread is there has been no
mention of what part Universal Serial Bus, (USB), Firewire, (IEEE
Standard 1394), and Device Bay play in the design of a dream
machine. USB is a medium speed serial interface, Firewire is a
high speed serial interface and Device Bay is a specification
that defines a new form factor for peripherals, including hard
disks and how they will electrically connect to a motherboard.
The main intent of these 3 standards is to enable plug and play
and hot swapping and to eliminate interrupt request conflicts.
To me these 3 standards mean SCSI will loose its importance,
SCSI will be mainly used for high performance hard disk systems
in the future, devices like scanners and DVD-ROMs will not have
an SCSI interface in the future and existing chassis will not be
compatible with device bay.

USB devices will be readily available when Windows 98 is released
this summer. Device Bay is scheduled to be initially available in
the first quarter of 1999 and I am guessing Firewire devices will
start becoming popular at the same time as Device Bay devices start
becoming available. Device Bay uses both USB and Firewire to
to interface peripherals to a motherboard.

For more information see:

"http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo/press/1998/Apr98/W98USBPr.htm"
for a Microsoft press release about Windows 98 and USB.
"http://www.usb.org/" for more information about USB.
"http://www.1394ta.org/" for more information about Firewire.
"http://www.device-bay.org/" for more information about Device
Bay.

Full disclosure, I am going to wait until Device Bay peripherals
are readily available in 1999 until I build my dream machine. So
far I haven't found an application that needs more CPU power than
a 486 running at 66 megahertz.
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