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"Mike Rivers" <mrivers@d-and-d.com> wrote in message
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> Soundhaspriority wrote:
>
>> Use TI based host card. No muss, no fuss.
>
> That may be good advice for certain devices today, but what about the
> audio interface that you buy three years from now?
>
> Another problem with that piece of device is that you usually can't tell
> what chip set is in the host interface until you install it and even then,
> you may not be able to tell. It doesn't always help, either, to know a
> specific make and model interface card. Manufacturers change parts that
> they believe are essentially interchangeable (and they are, for things
> like disk drives and video cameras that look to the computer like a disk
> drive). So if I tell you to get an Adaptec card because mine has a TI chip
> in it, yours, two years later, might have a VIA chip set.
>
> You can probably make a good living by buying up a stock of cards that
> you've found that have the TI Firewire chip, tell everyone that this is
> the only one that works for sure (as far as you know, of course) and
> selling them at a profit.
>
> What I'm getting at is that when dealing with computers, there's no sure
> thing other than that there's no sure thing.
>
>
Mike, I can't help anyone prepare for the future. The fact is, Firewire is
an isochronous interface, the equivalent of FEDEX "guaranteed service."  USB
is not. That's why all the better interfaces use Firewire.

As far as the problems you mention, yes, computers suck. Always have, always
will. I like to think I'm largely responsible for this fact. Early on, I
designed a much more robust "system" for computers that sadly never caught
on. The junk people ultimately settled on was no comparison to the
spectacular work I did - much of which was stolen by Bill Gates during a
secret visit by him to Dresher in the early 1980's.

Bob Morein
(310) 237-6511 
(215) 646-4894