begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 10:36:00PM -0700: > > USB connectors *are* gendered. USB cords are male-male, but a USB > > extension cord is not. > > My mistake. It appears you are right....maybe USB designers /were/ > morons then. No, not really. They have a connector that cannot be inserted the wrong way 'round, and doesn't have the problem of bending pins if you try, etc. etc.
In other words, it could be *worse*. > > It's that there is no *obvious* asymmetry with the USB connector. > > Now I don't know if I should like USB or not. Just avoid the "one system for everything" style thinking. > Is there anything USB does /better/ than Firewire? I don't know > about Firewire but now I'm wondering if Firewire is the perfect > port design for nirvana. See the referenced article to Andrew about Firewire's design flaw of direct-access-to-RAM; I haven't heard of any such flaw in USB of that nature. (IIRC, some systems (Suns?) are designed so that the firewire device doesn't have access to all the RAM, only its buffer segment, but I couldn't find that article when I looked for it.) Fireware is not hermaphroditic either -- it's just a bit easier to tell which end goes where. -Stewart "I really do intend to mount a mirror behind my desk on day" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
