Brett (ggtgp@yahoo.com) on 1/18/11 wrote:
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>Greg Gritton (GregNada@gmail.com) on 1/17/11 wrote:
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>>Brett (ggtgp@yahoo.com) on 1/15/11 wrote:
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>>>USB exists because Apple got behind it and drove volumes. The PC companies never
>>>cared or understood, they kept putting PS2 ports on their PCs, to this day even.
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>>Apple invented Firewire/1394, not USB. They licenced the patents for 1394 at $1
>>per port which Intel and others didn't want to pay. (I believe the cost was later
>>reduced.) Intel invented USB and drove it, licencing it freely or cheaply. Despite
>>the technical superiority of 1394, USB won out.
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>When Steve Jobs returned to Apple he dumped Apples ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) and
>switched to Intels USB, which few used or cared about.
>USB exists as something people know about because Apple got behind it and drove volumes.
>Which caused joystick and other devices to be made for USB, and created critical mass for mass adoption.
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>Apple created firewire because USB was too slow for media uploads/downloads, firewire
>is not used for keyboards or mice.
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>Apple designed its own chips to do ADB and FireWire.
>Apple designed the IWM (Integrated Woz Machine) and SWIM (Super-IWM) and a bunch of GLU (One chip motherboard) chips.
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As usual you are spouting nonsense. Why not inform yourself instead of making things up?