comp.sys.mac.advocacy

George Graves wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:03:37 -0700, Steve de Mena wrote
> (in article ):
>
>
>>Derek Currie wrote:
>>
>>>In article ,
>>>Sandman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>In article <5vc7v3heb4t37m5pd1buoal3rfjf5n2sa3@4ax.com>,
>>>>Mayor of R'lyeh wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:13:25 -0700 (PDT), Brad
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Fellow Mac Experts:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I am looking for speculation as to when Apple will begin putting Blu-
>>>>>>ray drives into its computers. I have been waiting a long time for
>>>>>>these things. The format war is over. I have to think there are
>>>>>>other people wanting Blu-ray either for burning HD content or for the
>>>>>>massive storage opportunity. I sure would like to be able to burn to
>>>>>>Blu-ray rather than all these 4.7 gig DVDs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>What do you think? Yet this year? If not, when next year?
>>>>>
>>>>>If they do it like they do most other things they'll put the current
>>>>>generation of Blu-Ray players in Macs after two more generations of
>>>>>Blu-Ray players are out. Maccies will then swoon and declare that
>>>>>Apple invented Blu-Ray.
>>>>
>>>>Maccie Myth #345
>>>
>>>Geez, is the Mayor of Turdness still around? Troll deluxe.
>>>
>>>FACT: Who was the FIRST computer company to adopt USB 1 as THE
>>>serial standard in ALL their computers? And this is a company
>>>that had already created a superior competing standard several
>>>years previously, called 'FireWire'. It took the rest of the PC
>>>industry a full YEAR to catch up and adopt USB. >>tick tick<<
>>>Give up? Oh come on.
>>
>>Maybe the rest of the computer industry cared about backward
>>compatibility with the serial and parallel devices consumers already
>>owned, which would need costly adapters (where feasible) to work on a
>>USB-only system.
>>
>>Steve
>
>
> Maybe nobody cares about backward compatibility but the Windroid group. Apple
> changed from a proprietary bus (ADB) and a troublesome high-speed serial bus
> (SCSI) to USB and Firewire and nobody ever looked back.
>

Erm... SCSI stands for Small Computer Systems Interface and it
definitely wasn't serial.
My vax4000 uses scsi interface and it is 50 pins. The newer ones have
even more. And they seem to be a bit faster on Suns as well.
You just have to have good decent drivers for that spec is all.