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USB v2.0 Support Added To NetBSD 13

hubertf writes: "There's news over at the NetBSD web site that Lennart Augustsson has added support for USB v2.0 devices into NetBSD-current. The new ehci driver is still in development but is in a working state for some mass storage devices, such as CD-RW drives. USB v2.0 offers a vast speed improvement (480Mb/s instead of 12Mb/s) over the original USB specification, and retains a good level of compatibility. For more details, see Lennart's announcement on current-users@netbsd.org."
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USB v2.0 Support Added To NetBSD

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  • USB 2.0 (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward
    I guess if they can keep the CPU suckage to a minimum at full speed, USB 2.0 might make an interesting networking system.
  • by Anonymous Coward
    It's really true!

    One day I was browsing the personals with my Colecovision ADAM fully loaded with NetBSD. One afternoon, after I finished porting ruby to the PDP-11, I was browsing the personals with lynx.

    I found a hot chick who's only computer was a NeXT cube with that horrible operating system. I went over to her place and put NetBSD on the cube. That got her all hot & bothered, so I put away my cd-case and lubed up all of her serial I/O ports. It was great.

    And talk about stability. While all this was going on, my online store sold $32767 worth of stuff. The colecovision can handle Apache and MySQL with no problems at all, not even a single buffer overflow.

    I am a proud Canadian and a proud *BSD user.

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