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[amigamad]

Yeah, buy a pegasos now and every £ you pay will go directly to bbrvs lawyers to sue ann.lu!  

with some of the unmoderated comments on there im  suprised they have not been sued ages ago  . :-o

[amigamad]

I remember when 'amiga' meant reasonable prices for cutting edge tech.

When was that then i must have missed it its always been overpriced. :-?

[System]

Actually the Pegasos is USB 2.0 Full Speed compliant

http://www.usb.org/faq/ans2#q1

But it's much less confusing to say USB 1.1.

Yes, there is a good reason not to use High Speed USB 2.0 - back when the original Pegasos was designed and prototyped it didn't exist.

The newer chipsets with the support don't support the older processor interfaces that PowerPC has, instead choosing to utilise HyperTransport and Intel's own technology NetBurst.

These are very x86 specific technologies, although you can buy "tunnels" which bridge the gap between one chipset and another, it's an expensive proposition just for a USB port or two.

A lot of PC motherboards still ship with older USB ports. A lot of them say "USB 2.0" when they don't support the 480Mbit speed rating.

At least we're being honest in this regard

[NightShade737]

Hey guys, don't forget that USB 2.0 applies to 12Mbps devides as well. Pretty much USB 1.x was renamed to 2.0 low-speed with the new 2.0 being USB 2.0 high-speed.

So if it makes you feel better, call the Pegasos a USB 2.0 low-speed, ok?

Nope.

USB1 = USB
USB1.1 = USB Full Speed
USB2 = USB High Speed

High Speed (480 Mbit's), Full Speed (12 Mbit/s) and Low Speed (1.5 Mbit/s)

Nothing has been renamed.

[KennyR]

Oh, and...

rayt wrote:
Yeah, buy a pegasos now and every £ you pay will go directly to bbrvs lawyers to sue ann.lu!

From what I hear, it's the other way around. Kemp is sueing Genesi.

IonDeluxe wrote:
*YAWN*

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[Khephren]

"rather than just look at semi-irrelevant numbers...
I know the PC industry likes to abuse the USB for just about everything:"
That's an intelligent comment from an intelligent poster. Can I subscribe to your newsletter?

[KennyR]

Sure. Here.

[minator]

A lot of PC motherboards still ship with older USB ports. A lot of them say "USB 2.0" when they don't support the 480Mbit speed rating.

IIRC someone once pointed out that the name change broke EU law so it's best to say 1.1.

Also the 480mbs is confusing as well, Firewire at 400mbs is measurably faster.

[Khephren]

LOL you got me That's sites pretty good BTW.

[NightShade737]

Thats because USB2 is 480Mb/s Bust (peak) where as Firewire is 400Mb/s sustained transfer.