Well, I'm sure a P-III 350 MHZ machine would be zippy with USB, I can
tell you that USB works perfectly well on a 200MHZ AMD machine.
And I'm thinking that on early pentiums, and late 486s, It'd be
faster than Paralell port periphials.
-Chrys
From: John Oram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: norAmi
Subject: Re: [SURVPC] USB and DOS
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hate to rain on this parade but before everyone jumps on the bandwagon
> for "Re: USB and DOS" maybe ya should look at the USB Organization
> site and read the specs for version 1.1, 1.1, and 2.0.
>
> Bottomline is USB is CPU dependent. Thus it is going to take a 350 MHz
> P-III class CPU to make it work. Therefore a SURVPC with DOS is not
> gonna be able to work very well. Also USB does allow additional
> devices to be added but with each device added requires more CPU
> cycles.
>
> John O
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