> And USB? This reference says that you can (now? soon?) buy a
> laptop docking station with all of the usual ports, connected
> only by USB...
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99093.piusb.htm
That thing looks very simple probably on the USB bus:
root hub
device hub (internal)
externally available 4 ports hub
externally available 7 ports hub
modem
serial port
parallel port
etc.
> Hmm. What sort of level of nesting do we support for this sort
> of thing? It's probably possible to buy USB interface cards
> that plug into ISA, PCI, SCSI? And vice-versa?
PCI and CardBus to USB. Any one having seen a ISA or PCMCIA variant,
please let me know.
USB->SCSI: E-Shuttle from Microtech / Shuttle or in the Iomega Zip drive
Nick
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