Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 27th Sep 2009 20:47 UTC
Apple When Intel unveiled its Light Peak optical interconnect (video) at IDF earlier this week, many noticed that the demonstration computer used to show the new technology was in fact a hackintosh. Well, thanks to Engadget we now know why: Apple is very, very involved in the conception of Light Peak. Let's take this opportunity to look at some of Apple's other connection standards from the past.
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RE[2]: Comment by robojerk
by Googol on Mon 28th Sep 2009 05:31 UTC in reply to "RE: Comment by robojerk"
Googol
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2006-11-24

The reason why you don't see USB HDs daisy chained is because while the B in USB stands for "bus", it is of course not a bus technologically. That's why.

Also, when you read transfer/access speed comparisions from ye olden days, FW always lagged substantially behind plain IDE setups, so there was really no point in having HDs with FW interface.

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