Re:Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future h...
by rkagerer on Friday March 27, 2026 @01:45AM
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> USB-C oscilloscopes work because the peripheral contains all the hardware, so it doesn't particularly matter that the device->host latency is high.
Yeah, that's basically the way accessories have gone. Powerful mcu's and soc's have gotten cheap enough to make it viable. Makes me a little sad though, I liked having low latency "GPIO's" straight to software running on my PC (but I'm thinking as far back as the parallel port... love how simple that was).
Re:Apple discontinues the Mac Pro with no plans for future h...
by jmalicki on Friday March 27, 2026 @02:19AM
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It's not just that - anything working with analog signals benefits hugely from not living inside the complete EM interference nightmare of the computer case.
Yeah, that's basically the way accessories have gone. Powerful mcu's and soc's have gotten cheap enough to make it viable. Makes me a little sad though, I liked having low latency "GPIO's" straight to software running on my PC (but I'm thinking as far back as the parallel port... love how simple that was).