Ars Technica:
The rise and fall of FireWire—IEEE 1394, an interface standard boasting high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer—is one of the most tragic tales in the history of computer technology. The standard was forged in the fires of collaboration. A joint effort from several competitors including Apple, IBM, and Sony, it was a triumph of design for the greater good. FireWire represented a unified standard across the whole industry, one serial bus to rule them all. Realized to the fullest, FireWire could replace SCSI and the unwieldy mess of ports and cables at the back of a desktop computer.
Yet FireWire’s principal creator, Apple, nearly killed it before it could appear in a single device. And eventually the Cupertino company effectively did kill FireWire, just as it seemed poised to dominate the industry.
For those of us old enough to remember SCSI (shudder), FireWire promised to free us from the black art of connecting devices to our computers. The story of its life and eventual death is an interesting one.
“remember SCSI (shudder)”
You got that right.
“Use the terminator” “I did” “Then take it off” “It’s working now, can I add the splitter?” “God no, it’s working, just leave it alone”
To be fair to SCSI, it was still the best and most interoperable option, at the time.
SCSI voodoo long ago convinced me that we really don’t understand physics as well as we think we do.
Oh yes, certainly. But there were many times I was left scratching my head too. When USB first came out I stuck with SCSI for years anyway, for speed and reliability (once it was properly connected that is).
Set the Device ID to 5.
Pouring one out for FireWire. It could have been glorious.
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