On Oct 22, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Olin Lathrop wrote:

> My problem with FireWire is that it's yet another bus my PC would  
> have to have, when I haven't encountered any compelling reason for  
> it that USB 2.0 hasn't handled.

I agree completely, even though I was the one who was questioning the  
need for USB2.

But I would have been happy with USB1 for lower speed peripherals and  
firewire for higher speed peripherals, and eSata or fiberchannel or  
whatever for the really high speed stuff.  I don't see the need for a  
single plug on the back of the PC to be able to handle EVERY  
peripheral from the 300byte/s mouse to the 3Gb/s disk array.

BillW

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