On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Mike Hicks wrote: > Just a random thought: Why has USB (12 Mbps) been so successful while > FireWire (400+ Mbps) has been very slowly adopted? Heck, I never even > heard of USB until I saw it on a motherboard, while FireWire had been > discussed in the trade press for years beforehand. Was there something to > do with licensing? Standards? Just the fact that Apple was a principal > character in FireWire? They may be a principal character, but the scuttlebutt I heard coming out of standards committee meetings was pretty convoluted. I suspect that it has as much to do with pissing competitions between manufacturers as anything else. I could be completely wrong, but there are standards and there's compliance; I think USB being simpler is easier to comply with in more different implementations. Phil M -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous