[ale] cpu load 8.5 on usb to usb move

[Tom Freeman]

On 02/25/2011 05:53 PM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 17:48 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
>    
>> load means number of process waiting for service. Since the USB
>> transfer process locks out other process from running while it does a
>> request to fetch, fetch, slurp into RAM, request to put, put, verify
>> put, other process line up and have to wait. The USB copy is a nasty
>> beast on systems.
>>      
> If memory serves, USB 3.0 will take care of that---devices in it are
> supposed to be a bit more intelligent than in USB 2.0 and prior.
>
> I still don't know why IEEE 1394 didn't win over USB...
>    
I'm not a marketing expert, and don't want to be one. But I can afford 
to lose a small wager that the reason IEEE1394 didn't win was time to 
market and/or upfront $$$.

Not an engineer, but IEEE 1394 is still a better, more versital, robust, 
better standard. Thus it should be abandoned (bitter satire in voice there)