Windows XP not to support USB2.0

[paulw]

See link below. M$ is instead going with Firewire.... interesting..

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-5558916.html

[wkulecz]

Better than interesting, I think its great!

Leave USB as a replacement for mice, keyboards, serial ports, and printer ports.

Leave 1394 for high bandwith devices.

I think mixing high and low speed devices on a "universal" bus is wrong headed. Its never worked well for SCSI -- try a scanner on a fast/wide controller, you end up needing two scsi controllers to get full performance. Been there, done that. 1394 has a "wrapper" making it quite easy for a competent driver writer to turn any working SCSI device into a working 1394 device. Can't say this about USB or USB2 as far as I can tell.

If USB started life as what's in the 2.0 spec maybe id's be OK, but now they are asking us to drop almost debugged 1394 devices and use USB2.0 instead because Intel gets the pennies per port instead of Apple.

--wally.