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To: Doren who wrote (27873)	3/15/2000 10:19:00 PM
From: Matt Peterson	Respond to of 213177

Re: MacOSRumors ------- Doren, although I do find MOSR entertaining, it's very obvious that Ryan Meader is absolutely clueless about computer technology. Either people are feeding him lots of false rumors and he is too ignorant of the subject matter the filter them out, or he is making up most of his news. Actually, I'll be so bold as to state that Ryan Meader must be making up most of his stories. How many times have I read that he watched a demonstration secretly tranmitted to him from the bowels of Apple over a secure and encrypted Quicktime stream? Statements like that might be able to fool the gullible newby, but to any body with half an ounce of tech experience, it's pretty obvious that Ryan Meader must be pulling most of his stories out of his magical butt of lies. -Matt

To: Doren who wrote (27873)	3/16/2000 3:56:00 AM
From: Jeff Hayden	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

USB doesn't handle isochronous data. The entire bus has to be taken over for that one task. You can't move multiple DV and voice channels for several simultaneous and independent data paths for instance. This situation might occur when several people are watching different shows on different channels in different rooms all interconnected with firewire (someone might also be playing a video game and another printing from his computer). Sony and Apple see this technology space as the future and are both striving to be the best at implementing it. Wintel has just realized it's behind. They won't win it over with a faster USB. There are very nice features on Firewire that aren't available with USB. Firewire has a mode that appears like an extension of memory to the host system. Clumps of memory can be placed remotely, say at a camera or printer, and then connected to the address space of the host processor. It performs like a 50 MB/s memory with a 400 Mb/s bus.