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From: Ed Durrant 
> I don't know about the rest here, but I think that Firewire is not 
> increasing it's foothold in the market place but rather losing it.
> 
> I think the only area where it still is perhaps a single option is on 
> some digital video cameras. Most digital still and a lot of video 
> capable one use USB 2.0 now and external harddisks are far more common 
> with USB-2 and it you need high speed eSATA external drives are far 
> faster than either Firewire or USB 2.0.
> 
> I think (my personal opinion) is that we're going to see firewire fade 
> away except in some niche markets.
> 
> Cheers/2
> 
> Ed.
> 
Hey Ed
  I suspect your assessment is fairly accurate which is truly a shame since
FireWire has more in common with an advanced but simple SCSI than any other
kind of interface.  Despite the fact the some call USB "poor man's
scsi" it, USB, has very little in common with SCSI, wheras FireWire
has much more in common.  That it is possible for a camera to talk directly
to a printer w/o an intervening PC is but one example of it's
sophistication.  However it is true in external storage that SATA, and it's
external component, has the "legs" to grow faster than FireWire
which is one reason FireWire will likely become a niche market unless Vista
falls flat on it's face and the Mac growth gets logarithmic.  It's a shame
that superior technologies often fall victim to poorer ones, but surely all
of us in this group are too painfully aware of that sad fact.  It just
still knocks me out that OS/2 is as viable as it is roughly on it's 10th
year since major updating, a length of time just a bit uncom
mon for computer software but then I'm probably crazy since I am also
pretty impressed with FreeDOS which recently had it's birthday going v1.0.
Cheers
Jimmy



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