RE: [WinMac] Re: iMac
Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Fri, 05 Feb 1999 20:02:18 -0500
Actually, I've seen USB ports on Pentium Pro machines since 1996... But I
agree wholeheartedly that the mfr's needed a swift kick in the a** to start
building peripherals for it... Nonwithstanding the very public crash of
Bill Gates' laptop during a windoze 98 demo last summer while he was
hot-plugging a(n) USB scanner...
Serves him right -- Trying to foist windoze 98 off on the public! :)
At 03:37 PM 2/4/99 -0500, Curtis wrote:
>At 02:03 PM 2/4/99 -0600, Jeff Thorstad wrote:
>
>>I find it interesting that USB was not _standard_ on ANY Wintel computer
>>until about a minute after the iMac came out. So maybe it was available
>
>Not standard? HP Vectras have had USB ports since at least the summer of
>'97 (the file dates on the Windows95 with USB Support CD are 5/1/97). I
>think a lot of other big vendors also had them but they've been languishing
>because of the lack of devices. Also the patched USB support in Win95 is
>supposedly not very good. They've certainly had them since Win98 started
>being pre-installed, which was before iMacs were available.
>
>As someone else mentioned the iMac seems to have been a kick in the pants
>for many companies to start producing USB devices.
>
>>first, but Apple still is the only company with the guts to really use
>>new technology, whether they created it (IEEE 1394) or not (USB). Wintel
>>companies have always been "wait until everyone does it, then try to do
>>it cheaper". And what comes out is cheaper, not less expensive.
>
>The problem with Wintel adoption of FireWire is Intel doesn't want to pay
>to put it on their motherboards. OEMs don't want it unless it's on the
>motherboard because otherwise they have to use the PCI bus to add it
>themselves. Actually Intel wants to *make* money by adding FireWire but if
>they have to pay Apple $1 and they tack on say, $1, that's another $2 that
>separates them from alternate chip/board options like AMD which already
>undercut Intel.
>--
>Curtis Wilcox cwcx@ats.rochester.edu
>Desktop Systems Consultant 716/274-1160
>Eastman School of Music Pager: x12-3290
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