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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: [ANN] Player-Ada 2.0.3.0 released
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:12:24 +0100, Alex R. Mosteo wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>> Architectures like this were widely used in industrial automation 10 years
>> ago. History tends to repeat itself... (:-))
> 
> At least the move to USB will simplify/cheapify new systems?

Maybe, though I am not sure. USB is P2P. It could become a burden for an
application, no matter if there were a port per sensor or else all of them
were multiplexed on one port. In the latter case you quickly end up with
something like a TCP/IP stack. So why not just to take Ethernet?

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de