But nobody in their right mind would or should lobby for Firewire on a mouse
in
the first place. It's stupid, even on $100 mouse - it simply doesn't need the
bandwidth. Usb 1.1 is perfect for mice, keyboards, etc.
If there is reason for having a Firewire port, and it doesn't cost more to use
it to run a mouse as well as the fast stuff - then why would someone have to be
out of his mind to utilize what was there?
I use a car capable of freeway speeds to drive around my neighborhood - because
it would be stupid to buy a slower car just because I don't need the speed to
pick up groceries.
The answer is NOT to have a "winner" and a "loser" but to have both
technologies co-exist.
Unless having both technologies costs sufficiently more and that one technology
did everything I need.
As to serial vs SCSI that was never even remotely an issue. The real battle
was
"SCSI vs IDE" and SCSI still outperforms IDE by a considerable margin in
heavily
loaded multitasking environments even though an IDE system may "boot faster"
the
proof of the pudding is doing multiple simultaneous file searches and trying
to
get work done at the same time. But I digress...
How does serial IDE do at this?
