Re: Switching audio via an Ocelot and SECU's

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Jeff Volp" <JeffVolp@xxxxxxx> wrote

> Comparing X-10 and Z-Wave is like comparing a PC with a Mac.

It's funny you should make that analogy at this moment.  Macs and PCs have
been on a convergence path for a long time now.  It started with SCSI and
then moved to PCI and USB.  This month, they made the transformation
complete and switched to Intel CPUs!

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/technology/techspecial2/25pogue.html

The official reason was speed and heat but the real reason was that they got
sole-source throttled by IBM who was not giving them the supply of chips
they wanted.  In essence, the need for interchangeability forced them to do
it.

AMD and VIA can make Pentium-class CPUs so there are other options if Intel
tries to throttles them like IBM did.  Add to that all the businesses that
really couldn't justify maintaining two whole different support staffs, HW,
training and everything else that comes with a dual standard and it was
inevitable.  That means, in essence, there's really only one CPU
architecture left for desktop computing.  That's pretty bloody
standardized!! <g>

WinTel machines were moving towards Apple as Apple was moving towards them.
MS stole all the GUI parts that made Apple so different in the early years
from the same place Apple did. :-) The just got around to using it a little
later.  That's remarkable convergence compared to the utter Babel of the
home automation world where no one player has emerged as a market leader,
except, maybe for X-10.

--
Bobby G.