Thor Lancelot Simon said:

>Since the only real support required -- unless I misunderstand -- is a
>driver for a new type of host adapter, this doesn't seem like much of an
>obstacle.

Third part developers will have to get Microsoft to certify their drivers
under the new Windows XP certification process.

>When I was with Sony, we had working Firewire devices including a 
>SCSI-over-FW data minidisc drive on display at the *1995* Fall Comdex.

I would just like firewire and/or USB storage devices for NetBSD. And I
don't mean zip drives are 120meg floppies.

It would be interesting to cluster machines together over firewire or
USB 2.0 using their full bandwidth.

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