Subject: RE: USB support in Linux
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jeremy C. McDermond <mcdermj@xenotropic.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/14/1998 06:16:38
Neither our Ultra 5, Ultra 10, or Enterprise 450 have a USB port. I'm not
sure about the Ex500 & Ex000 PCI I/O cards, or the new E250. I think NetBSD
is even ahead of Solaris x86, as I don't recall 2.6 having USB support.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: current-users-owner@NetBSD.ORG
> [mailto:current-users-owner@NetBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jason Thorpe
> Sent: Monday, July 13, 1998 9:13 PM
> To: Skeelo
> Cc: Dustin Sallings; current-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: USB support in Linux
>
>
> On Tue, 14 Jul 1998 02:53:41 -0400 (EDT)
> Skeelo <skeelo@white-dwarf.dyn.ml.org> wrote:
>
> > I know the new iMacs (shown at MacWorld) use USB and they should be
> > shipping very soon (if they aren't already). Also I've read
> that Apple is
> > including USB on all future Macintosh computers, so we should be seeing
> > plenty of USB machines in the future. There are already
> printers/scanners
> > and other peripherals on the market that have been released
> along with the
> > iMac.
>
> BTW, I should also mention that I think that all PCI-based UltraSPARCs
> have USB.
>
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