[WEB4LIB] Re: scanner

[Thomas Edelblute]

I am currious, how do you handle IRQs with USBs.  Recently I have seen a USB
mouse, and the mouse is IRQ 12, and a technician told me that a year or two from
now everything will be USB because they are cheaper to make.  This leaves me
wondering that if all periferals are going to plug into USB connections, how are
they going to handle the IRQs.

Bob Rasmussen wrote:

> I am coming to really like USB. Of course it's supported only on Win95B,
> Win98, and I'm not sure about NT. You can hot-plug it, which means you can
> bring a scanner out from storage, plug it in to a PC which has the drivers
> installed, and you can run. It can even get its power from USB port, so
> there's not separate power block.

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Thomas Edelblute
Anaheim Public Library