Re:I had a USB 1.0 Mobo in 97 (Score 1)

USB 2.0 is a bad hack. If you don't use a USB 2.0 hub, then any USB 1 device (which keyboards, mice, scanners, etc., should always remain) drops the whole thing to USB 1.

Well, implicitly your root hub will have to be a USB2.0 hub to have any chance of a USB2.0 acting at full speed wouldn't it?

USB2 is a bit of a hack, but it is absolutely paramount that it has backwards compatibility. So it isn't faster than FireWire? Who cares? Not the average home user. It is perhaps just fast enough for home use to squeeze uncompressed mpeg streams down the wire.

With regard to the time slicing, that is an implicit deficiency however USB2 hubs can work around slow devices with NYET token i.e the host controller is now not simply polling devices (and let the slow ones slow everyone else down). The host controller can skip slow devices, and come back to them later in the schedule.