# USB scanners?

David Mosberger-Tang (davidm@mostang.com)
Tue, 1 Dec 1998 14:17:49 -0800

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It occurred to me that this whole boring debate about parallel-port
scanners and the lack of support may soon disappear as a result of USB
picking up in popularity. Maybe we should focus on USB support? It
seems to me that parallel port scanners don't work well even if they
are supported. The reason for this is that parallel port scanners
tend to waste all available CPU cycles on the scanner, effectively
turning your nice & fast multi-user, multi-tasking machine into a
crummy single-task machine. AFAIK, USB doesn't have any of these
problems yet is much cheaper than a SCSI interface.

--david

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