Why can't firewire carry audio DIRECTLY between 2 macs?

Hi,
My situation.....(I'll simplify)
Imagine having 2 macs:
1 G5 (runs Logic Audio)
1 Mac Mini (used as slave to gain access to more gigs of RAM for orchestra)
Now....in order to pipe 8 channels of digital audio from MAc_Mini to the G5, it is neccessary for BOTH computers to have fire-wire interfaces with ADAT ports.....
Here is my question to you programmer types.......
If someone were to write a driver, would it not be possible to simply connect a firewire cable between the 2 computers and carry 8 channels of digital Audio that way? ( in other words not needing the audio interfaces )
ps: Please don't suggest Wormhole2 for ethernet ..It does NOT work ...and latency is 1/2 second ++
thanx,
SvK

If someone were to write a driver....
Yes in theory you could use a Firewire audio standard to do this, like mLAN or something else, but it doesn't work on OSX, AFAIK.
If both Mac's are running 10.4 have you tried AUNetSend/AUNetReceive or Jack. Is the latency too bad with those too? Then run IP (ethernet) over the Firewire connection. Or depending on what the Mini is doing, can you Logic node it again using Firewire?
I'd be interested to know, I've been wanting to try something similar.

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