USB 2.0 is a bad hack. If you don't use a USB 2.0 hub, then any USB 1 device (which keyboards, mice, scanners, etc., should always remain) drops the whole thing to USB 1.
Well, implicitly your root hub will have to be a USB2.0 hub to have any chance of a USB2.0 acting at full speed wouldn't it?
USB2 is a bit of a hack, but it is absolutely paramount that it has backwards compatibility. So it isn't faster than FireWire? Who cares? Not the average home user. It is perhaps just fast enough for home use to squeeze uncompressed mpeg streams down the wire.
With regard to the time slicing, that is an implicit deficiency however USB2 hubs can work around slow devices with NYET token i.e the host controller is now not simply polling devices (and let the slow ones slow everyone else down). The host controller can skip slow devices, and come back to them later in the schedule.
Strange assertion - bash 'seeming' to be the standard UNIX shell. Since it isn't available by default on many (or is that any?) commercial UNICEs.
Why use ksh over bash? Well ksh will be supported on your local UNIX variant and bash probably won't.
Actually I think possibly you have got your question the wrong way round. Bash has copied most of its features from ksh, and added a few things of its own. So I think it may be fair to call bash a functional superset. So it may be fair to reflect on what is missing from ksh that is in bash - things like PROMPT_COMMAND for a start.
I understand that SUN are looking (or at least were looking 6 months ago) for people to work on Chorus in either in Versailles (Paris) or in in Grenoble.
I am guessing that there will be visa implications as an American citizen but I don't think that these are too onerous.
The language barrier will be a problem, I think you would have less issues working in Denmark/Holland (especially) or Germany but that is generalising. If you're out on your own then the first year can be a bit tough, but after that it will all depend on how much you like the place.
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USB2 is a bit of a hack, but it is absolutely paramount that it has backwards compatibility. So it isn't faster than FireWire? Who cares? Not the average home user. It is perhaps just fast enough for home use to squeeze uncompressed mpeg streams down the wire.
With regard to the time slicing, that is an implicit deficiency however USB2 hubs can work around slow devices with NYET token i.e the host controller is now not simply polling devices (and let the slow ones slow everyone else down). The host controller can skip slow devices, and come back to them later in the schedule.
Strange assertion - bash 'seeming' to be the standard UNIX shell. Since it isn't available by default on many (or is that any?) commercial UNICEs.
Why use ksh over bash? Well ksh will be supported on your local UNIX variant and bash probably won't.
Actually I think possibly you have got your question the wrong way round. Bash has copied most of its features from ksh, and added a few things of its own. So I think it may be fair to call bash a functional superset. So it may be fair to reflect on what is missing from ksh that is in bash - things like PROMPT_COMMAND for a start.
I understand that SUN are looking (or at least were looking 6 months ago) for people to work on Chorus in either in Versailles (Paris) or in in Grenoble.
I am guessing that there will be visa implications as an American citizen but I don't think that these are too onerous.
The language barrier will be a problem, I think you would have less issues working in Denmark/Holland (especially) or Germany but that is generalising. If you're out on your own then the first year can be a bit tough, but after that it will all depend on how much you like the place.