From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Cooper <ian@WPI.EDU>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9
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Date: Mon,  5 Nov 2001 12:21:59 -0500
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> are a good deal more universal than USB support.  Linux and BeOS and
> OS/2 and so on and so forth can all boot from CD and install, but
> their USB support is...  well, they have some, but last I checked
> (which admittedly has been several months) the USB support in most
> OSes (apart from MS and Apple, who have support from the hardware
> vendors) only covers certain specific devices (scanners and such), not
> floppies and keyboards and modems and mice and other things that have
> perfectly good unified extant interface standards and shouldn't be
> using a USB interface in the first place.

Linux and Solaris do support USB mice and keyboards.  The Sun Ray
"network appliance" completely relies on USB, much like the iMac.