Will Parallels be adding firewire capabilities anytime soon? Any idea why there currently is no support for firewire? Thanks, Someone who obviously needs firewire
Firewire would certainly seem useful, it is an Apple invention, after all, and is highly regarded in video editing...
wstehl, Not to nitpick but firewire (actually IEEE 1394) wsn't actually invented by Apple... "FireWire is Apple Computer's name for the IEEE 1394 High Speed Serial Bus. It was developed by the IEEE P1394 Working Group, driven by contributors from Apple, although major contributions were also made by engineers from Texas Instruments, Sony, Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM, and SGS Thomson (now STMicroelectronics)"* Apple and Sony were the first manufacturer's to popularize this spec though. Just FYI...
Not to put too fine a point on it, but... From Wikipedia... History and Development FireWire is Apple Computer's name for the IEEE 1394 High Speed Serial Bus. It was initiated by Apple and developed by the IEEE P1394 Working Group, largely driven by contributors from Apple, although major contributions were also made by engineers from Texas Instruments, Sony, Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM, and SGS Thomson (now STMicroelectronics). According to Michael Johas Teener, original chair and editor of the IEEE 1394 standards document, and technical lead for Apple's FireWire team from 1990 until 1996: The original FireWire project name was "Chefcat", the name of Michael Teener's favorite coffee cup. There is lots more info there, it is obvious we are on the same page, although Apple does, in fact, hold the bsic patents on Firewire. Regards, Bill
Depending on what you really want to call the pure IP for 1394 you could interpret that actually Robert J Simpson's work for Inmos Ltd patent #5,341,371 and STM's is the real meat of 1394. Teener and James' contribution was more on the electrical side whereas Simpson's original work called for "A communication interface for interconnecting a computer with at least one other device" Even this was absed on work doen in the 80's predating any Apple involvement. A lot of people give Apple credit for 1394 and maybe rightly so but others feel that STM and Simpson's work was really the basis for what is the real 1394 "bus" concept. Since this work was based on work done at Motorola in 1983 (John Byrns patent #4,369,516) Regardless the IEEE ended up with governance for the 1394 spec. My original point was that while Apple is largely given credit for firewire and hold a number of the patents in the patent pool there are folks out there who believe that other earlier work was really the basis for the 1394 data bus. I think we've probably exhausted the whole idea and bored most people to tears. Cheers, Peter
Back to the original topic , which was whether or not anyone has an inkling as to when firewire support might be added to Parallels... I am also highly interested in this, as I have a firewire audio interface I'd quite like to use, and until Parallels supports firewire bus, I'm stuck using inconvenient Boot Camp and not having full use of my Macbook's trackpad. Sigh. Anyone have any ideas about this?
