| ??? 10/04/04 03:36 Read: times |
#78659 - RE: Hating USB Responding to: ???'s previous message |
George,
For me the problem isn't the USB complexity, but as you said Craig the gradual replacement of RS-232 by USB. I am really pissed off with that!!! What if tomorrow comes the new super duper IEEE 2144 bus/connection that will be better than USB and Firewire? Will I have to buy new converters such as USB-to-RS232? And we have seen that: ISA, PCI, AGP, PCI-Express or EDO, SDR, DDR, DDR2... And if you can't avoid these changes, then you can avoid the replacement of RS232 by USB and that by Firewire and that by whatever... I remember being pissed off when PCI started taking over the insides of PCs. See, I'd just finished a couple of ISA designs, and now there's this new thing! Plus, you couldn't wire-wrap a PCI proto-board like you could with 8 MHz ISA. Enumeration? Device drivers? Arrrgh! Of course, now that I've got a bunch of PCI designs under my belt, PCI is dead, even as the mass majority of PCs never evolved past 32-bit/33-MHz PCI expansion slots. It's not quite clear what's gonna replace PCI, so you have to learn HyperTransport, Rapid-IO, PCI-X, PCI Express, StarFabric, ... It's enough to make you want to write software :) Anyways, the point that should be obvious is that while we'd all like $500 PCs that have all sorts of hacker-friendly interfaces, the Big PC Makers just aren't interested. As a market, we're insignificant. --a |
