From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: November 28, 2007 6:32:13 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: New Flea2 models

Hi Perry;

The other thing to remember is that USB is Intel's baby and they don't want anything used except USB.

Apple leaned heavily (and still does) for board design on Intel for the first generation of Lap Tops and there was no FireWire 800 because Intel doesn't support FW800 at all.

It wasn't until the second generation MacPro Laptops that Apple had added FW800 support back in.

For High speed cameras, hard drives and other devices, the current push is for custom PCI -E boards, CameraLink or GigE. USB2 isn't even in the running for that.

HTH..

Milton Aupperle

On 28-Nov-07, at 5:57 PM, Perry Holcomb wrote:

Speaking as a Mac user since 1988 (Sys. 6.x or

something like that), I would pose that more PCs have

USB capability than Firewire, or there wouldn't be as

many Firewire boards for PCs on the market.

Just an assumption...

Perry