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To: dr_elis who wrote (17983)	4/13/1999 3:49:00 PM
From: Robert Salasidis	Respond to of 25814

FireWire (IEE1394a) is all but dead in the HD area. Some companies were to come out with 1394 products but delays in acceptance on PC motherboards, Apples turnaround asking for 1$ per plug royalties, and the general improvement of the current interfaces (passing Firewire's 400 Mbits/sec interface speed) (ATA 66 MBytes /sec - and SCSI of even faster than that) have made it unecessary as a HD interface. Intel is pushing a second version of USB that will increase its speed (albeit slower than Firewire), and the traditional HD interfaces will continue to improve - A 800 MBit/sec FireWire interface is in the works. At the moment it looks like FireWire will remain a niche product for connection of VCRs, Cameras etc to PCs - and not be a general purpose interface.