> As the speed of the bus increases and the ability to contain the bus
> interface in fewer chips increases the number of wires needed tends to go
> down. Obviously two wires are easier to handle, terminate and connect
> than 100. What also occurs is the simpler the bus the more sophisticated
> the bus interface required, higher levels of integration feed that. It's
> evolotionary. Think of USB and firewire as network buses and the devices
> to connect them to things like printers and disks as "bridges".
>
> Still, some buses will be hard fo the hobbiest to deal with due to the
> specialzed logic needed.
>
> Allison
Perhaps Firewire's a distant decendant of the DEC CI780 and HSC50
disk interface SDI cable.
Bill
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Received on Tue May 09 2000 - 13:03:29 BST