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To: Don Green who wrote (33860)	7/10/2002 7:17:28 PM
From: Jeff Hayden	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

The problem with that thinking is the market will follow the demand and once USB 2.0 takes hold you will see firewire drop off. No you won't. Firewire is being adopted by the non-computer electronics world as the main bus for digital hubs without PC's. That is, smart TV's, A/V systems, game systems, cable set top boxes, Tivo thingies, whatever. A lot of manufacturers in those areas don't think that digital hubs will be successful if PCs have to run them all the time. Since FireWire enables peer-to-peer communications without a controlling computer, and USB2.0 doesn't, FireWire will become even more important and pervasive as time goes on and as FireWire gets faster. USB2.0 will be useful for a while for connecting hard discs and a few other devices to PCs, but it's probably a dead-end technology in the long run. FireWire extends into the future with at least 3.2 GHz fiber optic buses. USB2.0 can't even handle the 400MHz rate of the present FireWire.