On Nov 21, 2004, at 10:11 AM, Yersinia wrote:
what exactly IS Firewire and what is so important about it?It is a much faster means of connectivity . USB 1 is theoretically 12 mps , fire wire is approximately 40 times faster. (USB 2 was developed as a Firewire competitor, with the advantage of being backwards compatible with USB 1.) The acceptance of Firewire wars are pretty much over, even the wintel beige box guys include it now. It's the dominant connectivity with DV video cameras and a lot of high bandwidth prosumer devices.
It can be added to a Beige G3 with a PCI card, but you need to download the necessary extensions from Apple to make it work as no knowledge of Firewire was not built in to the Beige. The technology was still in it's infancy when the Beige was produced. .
The B&W shipped with 8.5.1 first and 8.6 later. As with many products, optimization for use with various OS is built in to the ROM (Firmware). While a computer may well run older applications, rarely can you install an earlier OS version on a Mac. Later yes, but not earlier. Where needed, and if the computer supports it, Apple will provide a Firmware (ROM) update to be run before installing a new OS such as running 10.2> on early iMac's. First you update the firmware in OS9 before attempting to install 10.2>And why would my Beige G3 not have it (apparently it mustn't, if that's why I can run OS 8.1 on my G3 and Daniel can't on his), but his B&W G3 would?
Jack Russell
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