* las <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 17 Jun 2001
| My question is this, does firewire have to be limited to video and audio
| devices?
No. IEEE 1394 (remember, "Firewire" is an Apple trademark for one
implementation of IEEE 1394) is a low cost, high speed replacement for SCSI
in the small market (home and small business). Anything that can be done
over SCSI can hypothetically be done over IEEE 1394, as well as some other
clever hacks like TCP/IP over IEEE 1394 (which actually isn't a new idea,
as DEC has been doing that sort of thing for years).
Its utility in the A/V arena is that it is cheap and fast. Cheap is
obvious. Fast is that it is more than fast enough to do realtime audio and
video transmission at full bandwidth for editing and such.
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