Holger Granholm,

03-Dec-99 21:10:00, Holger Granholm wrote to Andy Roberts
 HG> In a message dated 12-01-99, Andy Roberts said to Holger Granholm:
          Subject: USB

 HG>>> Another question: Any hints on USB support in Warp 4?

 AR>> If you look on that CD you just got from me:

 AR>> Usbcom02.Zip was just announced by Pete Norloff, so it may not be on
 AR>> that CD.

 HG> Just checked, it isn't but I'll await your reply to the previous
 HG> reply.

If that's the file you need, then I'll send it to you via E-Mail File Attach.

I may be proven wrong in the long run, but my feeling about USB is in the same
class with VLB, which was only dominate for the 486 and mostly abandoned for
the Pentium, which forced a lot of very expensive VLB HW to become obsolete.
Granted PCI has advantages over VLB.  And I'm sure USB has it's good points.
But I have no intention of throwing away my ISA and SCSI HW and jumping on the
USB bandwagon, just because some OEMs are trying to push new standards in an
effort to sell more HW.  And from what I've seen of rapid USB driver
replacements, I'm not so sure they have all the bugs worked out.  Fortunately
so far SCSI has not been abandoned.  So If I have a choice of getting a new
device for SCSI or USB, then SCSI will win.  Granted that does not solve the
problem of fewer ISA slots in some of the new MoBos.  But there are still some
MoBos with a couple of ISA slots.  I'm not sure what is going to be developed
to replace the Pentium.  Frankly I'm surprised it is not already here,
considering how fast OEMs moved to dump the 486.  I'm not sure there is going
to be a smooth upgrade path for USB any more than there was for VLB.  IMO USB
is a lot of development by marketing staff.  Thus I'm not impressed with USB.

     Thanks and Good Luck,        Andy Roberts
                                  andy@shentel.net
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