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To: John Koligman who wrote (24464)	12/8/1997 12:05:00 PM
From: jbn3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

John, Hank's disappearance puzzles me, too. Where has he gone with his "Until the 12th of Never, I'll be shorting DELL" .....unless of course, it was all superficial bravado with the specific intention of creating FUD. I had developed a certain respect for Hank, so I hope that's not the case. Hope nothing has happened to him. (Hank, are you still alive, or are you being held captive in a DELL computer factory?) PS. STRANGE market, DOW down 19, NASDAQ up 16+ Regards, 3

To: John Koligman who wrote (24464)	12/8/1997 12:51:00 PM
From: Meathead	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

You are correct John. USB is already with us and should heat up next year with OS support... 1394 Firewire is a little further out but is not designed to replace USB (sound familiar?<g>). You should expect to see both USB and 1394 Firewire ports on future PC's. Here are the main differences between these two ports: USB supports a low-speed, 1.5 Mbps (Mega-bits-per-second), low cost version and a medium-speed, 12 Mbps, higher cost version. USB uses 3.3-volt CMOS differential signaling. Low cost peripherals requiring low bandwidth are best suited to USB like input devices such as keyboards and mice. USB is a supervised bus which requires a host controller to handle all bus traffic. Conventional USB topology does not allow direct peer-to-peer transfers between peripherals, so operation of external peripherals is not possible when the host computer is powered off. 1394 currently supports speeds up to 400 Mbps with future definitions taking it up to 3.2Gbps. This makes it more suitable for high-bandwidth peripherals, such as color scanners and printers. 1394 uses 220-millivolt CMOS differential signaling which is less than half the power consumption of a SCSI device pin. 1394 is an unsupervised bus that will permit peer-to-peer transfers between peripherals without aid from the host computer. MEATHEAD