On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 21:25:42 +0200, Daniel Eggert <danieleggert@mac.com>
wrote:
> > Please can you advise if there on the market any USB devices that are 
> > able
> > to be divided, I wish to run one device, to "two computers" using a
> > splitter.
> >
> > like a phone line divider dose one exist for a USB connection.
> 
> I doubt. The USB standard is for connecting a device to one host (i.e. 
> computer) only. On the ohter hand USB is hot-pluggable, so you can just 
> plug and un-plug as you like.

What you say is true.  I spent a little time reading 1% of the 650-page
spec:

	http://www.usb.org/developers/data/usb_20.zip

Leaving me with one question, answered perhaps in the other 644 pages, to
wit, "Microsoft can create a network with two hosts on a USB bus.  How?"

<shrug>

--jkl