[geeks] Whee! Lightning strikes, AGAIN!

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Jul 28, 2009, at 11:59 , Joshua Boyd wrote:

> 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.

It's faster and more reliable than anything else we had then or now,  
so where is the nightmare?

What we have now is certainly a nightmare, and while firewire is not  
perfect, it would be a lot better than the utter garbage we have now.

-- 
"Where some they sell their dreams for small desires."