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To: Robert Salasidis who wrote (63280)	11/11/2001 2:04:44 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Robert, Anyone that prefers serial cables (and to a lesser extent parallel cables) over USB would probably need their head examined. It is not a question of "preferring". My camera that has always been flaky (as a USB device) with a pre-W2k OS did not have a W2k driver supporting USB when W2k was released. But I could use serial. It worked reliably but it was slow. Later on, USB W2k drivers became available, and of course USB is much faster, but I am back to a flakiness of USB as far as detecting, connecting, disconnecting etc. Note, that we are in 2001, 5 years after original release of USB, the quality is still no better than a beta release. I think USB was a reaction to FireWire, it was poorly thought out, rushed to market. On net basis, it was a setback for the PC industry. I don't know what USB 2.0 but I hope it is a complete overhaul. Joe

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