[geeks] Whee! Lightning strikes, AGAIN!

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:39:16AM -0400, nate at portents.com wrote:

> There used to be a lot of buzz that Firewire was going to become *the*
> home audio/video interconnect, and it would have been brilliant.  64
> devices supported, isochronous transfers supported, device-to-device
> direct communication, the option to run TCP/IP over it, etc.

It would NOT have been great.  Firewire has no where near the bandwidth
needed, not even the new FW 1600 that isn't actually out yet.

It would have been a nightmare.