From: Roman Pixell (roman_at_pixell.net)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 20:50:34 PST
i think it was all about extending the newts capabilities the same way
as the USB standard would have done that, problem is that the mp2k was
drafted in 1996, before the USB standard was finalised.
so in order to use an auto-sensing, multifunction port, apple stuck to
a proprietary non-compromise solution, as usually...
(sorry for my lousy language - its late)
/ roman
On tisdag, feb 4, 2003, at 00:34 Europe/Stockholm, Brian Braunschweiger
<brianbraun_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, does anyone know why Apple designed a dongle
> rather than using a traditional circular serial port? Does the dongle
> port save space, make it more compatible with Windows or what?
> Inquiring minds want to know.
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