[X4U] iPad news

[Zane H. Healy]

At 8:22 PM -0600 2/2/10, Nick Scalise wrote:
>On Feb 2, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
>>I'd be interested in knowing what you base the claim that Apple was the
>>driving force away from SCSI and floppy drives.  The PC desktop world never
>>really went with SCSI, just high-end workstations.  It was SAS that did SCSI
>>in.  As for floppies, they remained on PC's until flash drives became
>>common.
>>
>>Yes, Apple drove the usage of USB and Firewire, but Firewire is sadly well
>>on its way to becoming irrelevant.  I rather hope that the next Mac Pro
>>includes either USB3, or eSATA ports, in addition to Firewire ports.  Have
>>you looked recently for *new* Firewire devices?
>
>
>SAS is SCSI - Serially Attached SCSI.
>
>So you can't really say that SAS did in SCSI.

Good point, the worst part, I know what SAS means, and was even 
thinking about it while I wrote that. :-) The real beauty of you 
pointing this out though, is that it shows the insanity of the claim 
Apple was the driving force away from SCSI, as the high-end disk 
drives they use are SAS. :-)

Zane



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