On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 lbedford at wbtsystems.com wrote:
>> Oh and on the subject of USB, anyone know what happens if you plug two USB machines into the
> same hub (so they can see the same stuff on the bus?).. I think you can do it with SCSI
> , but I dunno with USB?
It should be impossible with the standard connectors shouldn't it? if you
are talking about fucking with connectors well it will confuse a lot of
things... USB is designed with only 1 host.. or at least after reading the
spec that is the impression I get .... messing with USB gender changers is
only asking for trouble ....
Dave.
>
> L.
>
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