So it's basically that apple never wrote drivers for USB that supported the nubus architecture, or is it that the OS required for USB support wouldn't run on the Nubus Powermacs/quadras?
I just think it's really strange that a top of the line machine as of august 1995 wouldn't be supported by SOME company that would write drivers for it and produce an expansion card offering it seeing as how USB became popular less than three years later. I get why apple wanted people to replace rather than upgrade, fair enough, but where was the third party support? Like I said a lot of really really specific low volume upgrades like G3 cards for machine specific L2 cache slots and I think i remember some kinda weird bolt-on 3DFX card for the original imac that wasn't s'poseda be upgradable. Nobody thought they could turn a profit on a USB card for nubus?
I just think it's really strange that a top of the line machine as of august 1995 wouldn't be supported by SOME company that would write drivers for it and produce an expansion card offering it seeing as how USB became popular less than three years later. I get why apple wanted people to replace rather than upgrade, fair enough, but where was the third party support? Like I said a lot of really really specific low volume upgrades like G3 cards for machine specific L2 cache slots and I think i remember some kinda weird bolt-on 3DFX card for the original imac that wasn't s'poseda be upgradable. Nobody thought they could turn a profit on a USB card for nubus?