[rescue] I'm one happy geek

[Sebastian Marius Kirsch]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 07:49:45AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:15:33PM +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:
> > USB is definately not 10MB Megabyte, it might well be 2Mb Megabit though.
> USB is 12 megabit, supposedly.   "under optimum conditions".

One important characteristic of USB is -- while it is *damn* slow --
that it's possible to reserve a portion of the bandwidth for one device,
for instance for a webcam. I think this is essential for a bus like USB,
and this cannot be done with ethernet. (ATM can do that, though. But I
don't think we will see ATM on the desktop anytime soon. ;-))

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Yours, Sebastian Kirsch <skirsch at moebius.inka.de>

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