Busses vs no busses

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Tue May 9 13:43:08 2000

Chuck wrote:
> But the trend in PC's has gone to fewer and fewer "slots" and soon will
> be no slots. I thought that the bus was dead until I realized that USB
> has the same bandwidth as Q-bus and FireWire has much better bandwidth.
> So presumably we'll see some interesting I/O devices that use these
> busses in the future.

Yes, Apple's "virtual slot" idea that they used to justify the "closed"
Macintosh is finally becoming practical, albeit about 16 years later than
they intended. Better late than never! :-)
Received on Tue May 09 2000 - 13:43:08 BST