From: Robert Masters (rdm_at_enfield.iinet.net.au)
Date: Thu Aug 21 2003 - 07:38:53 PDT
>Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:36:25 -0400
>Subject: Re: [NTLK] OT: USB
>From: Bruce <bmgu3_at_chartermi.net>
>
>Yep the iMac was the first to adopt both usb and firewire. But then
>firewire is not at it's second stage just like USB. Also if you want
>the truth, ADB was the first serial bus, also apple. And everyone
>wonders why I moved to macs in 99. humm not me
Actually, ADB was the *second* serial bus. There was, prior to that, the
serialized IEEE-488 bus. Brought to you in the late 70's by Commodore!
Of course the CBM contribution was a cheap degrading of the full
IEEE-488 bus, but that is another story.
Go the .9264Mbps!
-R
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