drkuli wrote:
It seems like about 5 years ago the whole business started to switch from tape based to file based
The switchover from tape to file is physiological and natural, even due. The problem is that support for the interface has been terminated much faster than the turnover of the equipment that used it, at least at the low end.
doomsday wrote:
And with the speeds of the new USB 3.0 I can see firewire getting thrown out with the proverbial bath water.
I don't know enough about USB 3, but whoever has tried to compare Skype with technology from the 1870s (telephone) can appreciate the difference between being fast and being suitable for sustained throughput, even at a lower average rate.
