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To: Joe NYC who wrote (63200)	11/9/2001 10:48:18 AM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Joe: When it works. Problem with USB is that it so often does not work, it is flaky, and even after several revision of the spec, it is still a flaky technology. I wasn't aware that USB still had issues. I've never had any problems myself ;-). It should be noted that the Parallel port isn't much better. Have you ever tried chaining e.g. a scanner and a printer to a single parallel port? It's supposed to work, but I've never experienced a case of it working flawlessly. -fyo

To: Joe NYC who wrote (63200)	11/9/2001 11:03:45 AM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 275872

"Problem with USB is that it so often does not work, it is flaky, and even after several revision of the spec, it is still a flaky technology." I second your opinion. The USB was incorporated into almost every PC since early 1996 at least in i430VX chipset. First three years it was totally useless, partly because of no stable software support, partly because there were no need for it whatsoever. I am afraid the latter is still true. The major problem with USB is that it is not a self-contained functional block, but rather a intertwined part of the PC. For its operation the USB relies on heavy bus-mastering over fairly complex structures of descriptor tables located in main memory. In a PC environment, where the memory reliability and proper protection is "don't care", when coupled with tremendous probability of "page faults" in Microsoft applications, there is no wonder why it stops working too frequently. Regards, - Ali

To: Joe NYC who wrote (63200)	11/9/2001 4:27:20 PM
From: Robert Salasidis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

I have not had any problems with any of my USB connections since the Win2k upgrade. Anyone that prefers serial cables (and to a lesser extent parallel cables) over USB would probably need their head examined. The connectors are smaller, the self powered aspect is a plus, the speed is better, and with USB 2.0 will only get better. In video IEEE1394 is better (and may contibnue to be so even wrt to USB 2.0) but the free distribution of USB has made it a ubiquitous interface (which was the initial point)